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abrogation|æbrəˈgeɪʃən|
[ad. L. abrogātiōn-em repeal, n. of action, from abrogāre: see abrogate a. Perhaps immed. from Fr. abrogation 16th c. in Littré.]
The act of abrogating; repeal or abolition by authority. (Not now used of persons or things concrete.)
1535Coverdale Mal. iii. Contents, Off the abrogacion of the olde leuiticall presthoode. 1617Janua Ling. 1041 To repeale a statute is as much as an abrogation. 1651Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 157 The Command, as to that particular fact, is an abrogation of the Law. 1692S. Johnson (title) An Argument proving, that the Abrogation of King James by the People..was according to the Constitution. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. Pref. 48 The universal sorrow which the abrogation of that feast would occasion. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 83 The act would be oppressive..and the abrogation of a settled right.
Add: (Example in sense 3 of *abrogate v.)
1959Nature 5 Dec. 1815/1 (heading) Abrogation by injected mouse blood of protective effect of foreign bone marrow in lethally X-irradiated mice. |