abrogation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃn̩]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
abrogation (countable and uncountable, plural abrogations)
- The act of abrogating.
- A repeal by authority; abolition. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
- 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
[…] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.
- 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
- (molecular biology) The blocking of a molecular process or function.
- A repeal by authority; abolition. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
act of abrogating
- Arabic: إِلْغَاء (ar) m (ʔilḡāʔ)
- Basque: indargabetze
- Catalan: abrogació (ca) f
- Dutch: afschaffing (nl) m, intrekking (nl) m, opheffing (nl) m, ongeldigverklaring m
- Galician: abrogación (gl) f
- German: Abschaffung (de) f, Aufhebung (de) f, Abolition (de) f, Niederschlagung (de) f, Abrogation (de) f (law), Zurücknahme f, Kündigung (de) f, Annullierung (de) f, Annullieren n
- Greek: ακύρωση (el) f (akýrosi), κατάργηση (el) f (katárgisi)
Ancient: ἀθέτησις f (athétēsis) - Indonesian: pembatalan (id)
- Irish: aisghairm f
- Italian: abrogazione (it) f
- Polish: abrogacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: ab-rogação (pt) f
- Romagnol: abrugaziôn f
- Spanish: abrogación (es) f
- Turkish: yürürlükten kaldırma, feshetme (tr)
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrogation”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.
Inherited from Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiōnem (“repealed”), from Latin abrogō, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).
abrogation f (plural abrogations)
- “abrogation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.