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▪ I. abrogate, a. and pple. arch.|ˈæbrəgət|
Also 5–7 abrogat.
[ad. L. abrogāt-us pa. pple. of abrogāre to repeal, cancel (f. ab off, away, + rogāre to propose a law). In earlier use than the verb to abrogate, whence also a new participle abrogated, now more generally used.]
Repealed, annulled, cancelled, abolished by authority.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 181 So that statute was abrogat, and no lenger kept. 1538Starkey England 102 Ther be few lawys and statutys, in parlyamentys ordeynyd, but, by placardys and lycence..they are broken and abrogate. 1552–5Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 244 That no curate command the even to be fasted of an abrogate holiday. 1609Skene Reg. Majest. Pref. A 7 Some of them are abrogat, be posteriour lawes, or be desuetude, are obscured. 1635N. R. tr. Camden's Eliz. Introd., Lawes made by King Henry the eight against the Protestants are repealed..the Masse is abrogate. a1845Southey Inscriptions xlv. Wks. III. 177 The promise on the Mount vouchsafed, Nor abrogate by any later law.
▪ II. abrogate, v.|ˈæbrəgeɪt|
Pa. pple. 5–7 abrogat, abrogate; 6– abrogated.
[f. prec., or on analogy of vbs. so formed.]
1. To repeal (a law, or established usage), to annul, to abolish authoritatively or formally, to cancel.
1526Tindale Heb. viii. 13 In that he sayth a new testament he hath abrogat the olde. 1553Wilson Rhetorique 24 b, They abrogate suche vowes as were proclaimed to be kept. 1649Milton Eikon. 46 Doubtless it repented him to have establish'd that by Law, which he went about so soon to abrogat by the Sword. 1666Fuller Hist. Cambr. (1840) 157 Thus was the pope's power fully abrogated out of England. 1775Burke Sp. Concil. with Amer. Wks. III. 60 We wholly abrogated the ancient government of Massachuset. 1841Myers Cath. Thoughts iv. §26. 305 The Law of the Jews..was not rejected nor contradicted by the Gospel..but simply abrogated by being absorbed. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Constitn. i. 22 But the same power which formed these rules may abrogate or suspend them.
2. To do away with, put an end to.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 55 Perge, good M. Holofernes, perge, so it shall please you to abrogate scurilitie. 1634T. Herbert Travaile 141 Others say all the world was a paradice till sinne abrogated its glory. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. 95 Pay certified, yet payers abrogated. 1855Owen Skel. & Teeth 86 In the whales the movements of these vertebræ upon one another are abrogated.
Add:3. Immunol. To suppress or prevent (a physiological process).
1959[implied in *abrogation n. below]. 1965Science 2 July 82/2 The inhibition of cell growth in the hybrids.., which is detected by tumor transplantation into mice, could be abrogated by treatment of the recipient mice with cortisone acetate. 1974Nature 10 May 161/1 (heading) Lymphocytes from human newborns abrogate mitosis of their mother's lymphocytes. 1990EMBO Jrnl. IX. 3821/2 PT application abrogates interleukin-2 (IL-2) secretion from a murine hybridoma. |
单词 abrogable 释义 abrogable, a.|brgb()l|[f. L. abrog-re: see abrogate + -ble; as if ad. ......