abrogation

English

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 From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).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]
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃn̩]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

abrogation (countable and uncountable, plural abrogations)

The act of abrogating.
1. A repeal by authority; abolition. [First attested in the mid 16^th 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.
3. (molecular biology) The blocking of a molecular process or function.

act of abrogating

^ 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Inherited from Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiōnem (“repealed”), from Latin abrogō, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).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)