abolishedadj.
/əˈbɒlɪʃt/, U.S. /əˈbɑlɪʃt/ Done away with, brought to an end; cancelled, suppressed.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > annulled, cancelled, revoked
derogate1430
revocate?1440
revoked1461
abrogatea1464
annihilate?a1475
cassate1519
cancelled1539
dissolved?1541
abolished1546
dissoluted1606
aniente1636
retracted1676
red-lined1966
1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. cxliv When ye maye agene ioyne your abolished head to his owne reserued body.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 207 Many thinges generally kept heretofore are now..vnkept and abolished euery where.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World Pref. sig. E The abolished parts are departed by small degrees.
1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. lxxii. 60 Cappadoceans; and Judeans, which Abolisht Rites so obstinately keep.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 2. 133 To-morrow shall introduce us to an intercourse with the great founders of long abolished empires.
1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) V. vi. i. 5 Their fatal adherence to their long abolished Rites depending altogether upon this single prejudice.
1840 Times 27 Nov. 3/4 The expense inflicted on the citizens by this perverse attempt to cling to an abolished jurisdiction is considerable.
1869 Times 19 June 8/6 Compensation to holders of abolished office.
1906 Virginia Law Reg. 12 183 No taxes so collected should be applied to the payment of debts of the abolished municipalities.
1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four ii. iv. 145 He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening.
1995 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 55 249 The low yield from direct taxes induced the government to reinstate some of the abolished indirect taxes in the face of public opposition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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