单词 | abrogator |
释义 | abrogatorn. A person who or (occasionally) thing which abrogates something. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation > one who abrogatora1602 evacuator1611 repealer1687 repealist1810 a1602 W. Perkins Cloud of Faithfull Witnesses (1607) 156 The Scripture saith, Christ is the end of the Law to all that beleeue... The end of the Law: that is, not the taker away, or abrogater of the law, but the fulfiller of it. 1629 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (new ed.) 96 Abrogators [1605 abnegators] and dispensers against the Lawes of God, but tyrannous importuners and Exacters of theyr owne. 1705 T. Edwards Diocesan Episcopacy vi. 153 They must own themselves to be the Sacrilegious Abrogators and Abolishers of the Divine Right of Prelacy. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 10 Hail to thee..conqueror of the Wahabees, abrogator of turbans, shawls, and mustaches! 1874 J. Lawrence Angel Voices from Spirit World 297 Having by your surroundings been induced to step aside from the path of virtue and holiness, and thus becomes [sic] abrogators of God's holy laws. 1956 K. Cragg Call of Minaret x. 286 It may be that even faith in abrogation can be persuaded to show critically the sense in which the abrogated is perfected in the abrogator. 2001 A. Sachedina Islamic Roots Democratic Pluralism ii. 31 There is no statement in the Koran..to suggest that the Koran saw itself as the abrogator of previous Scriptures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1602 |
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