Crossword clues for abrogated
abrogated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abrogate \Ab"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abrogated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abrogating.] [L. abrogatus, p. p. of abrogare; ab + rogare to ask, require, propose. See Rogation.]
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To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
--South.Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate.
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To put an end to; to do away with.
--Shak.Syn: To abolish; annul; do away; set aside; revoke; repeal; cancel; annihilate. See Abolish.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: abrogate)
Usage examples of "abrogated".
I too hastily expressed that the political death of a State dissolves civil society within its territory and abrogates all rights held under it, and accept the doctrine that the laws in force at the time of secession remain in force till superseded or abrogated by competent authority, and also that, till the State is revived and restored as a State in the Union, the only authority, under the American system, competent to supersede or abrogate them is the United States, not Congress, far less the Executive.
The principle is well known and recognized by the jurisprudence of all civilized nations, that in the transfer of a territory from one territorial sovereign to another, the laws in force under the old sovereign remain in force after the change, till abrogated, or others are enacted in their place by the new sovereign, except such as are necessarily abrogated by the change itself of the sovereign.
The laws of the State are territorial, till abrogated by competent authority, remain the lex loci, and are in full force.
The private rights and interests created, regulated, or protected by the particular State, are created, regulated, or protected by the United States, as much and as plenarily as if done by the General government, and the State laws creating, regulating, or protecting them can be abrogated by no power known to the constitution, but either the State itself, or the United States in convention legally assembled.
Secession has not dissolved civil society, or abrogated any of the laws of the disorganized State that were in force at the time of secession.
They do so by will of the United States, which enacted them through the individual State, and which has not in convention abrogated them, save the law authorizing slavery, and its dependent laws.
The United States have by a constitutional amendment abrogated the laws of the several States authorizing slavery, and prohibited slavery forever within the jurisdiction of the Union.
London flat could be abrogated at least for a month or two, she could stay in her home, doing exactly what she had been doing for some years, and Betsy would have time to get used to changes.
Immediately following the election, Seagram abrogated the long-standing voluntary agreement which prohibits advertising liquor on radio and television.
But at the present moment liberty of speech and of the press is utterly abrogated in the State of New York, as it is in other States.
Congress abrogated the French-American treaties of 1778, created a permanent Marine Corps, passed the Sedition Act, and approved the nomination of Washington as supreme commander.