arch.; 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 Repealed, annulled, canceled, abolished by authority.
1460. Capgrave, Chron., 181. So that statute was abrogat, and no lenger kept.
1538. Starkey, England, 102. Ther be few lawys and statutys, in parlyamentys ordeynyd, but, by placardys and lycence … they are broken and abrogate.
1552–5. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), 244. That no curate command the even to be fasted of an abrogate holiday.
1609. Skene, Reg. Majest., Pref. A 7. Some of them are abrogat, be posteriour lawes, or be desuetude, are obscured.
1635. N. R., trans. Camden’s Eliz., Introd. Lawes made by King Henry the eight against the Protestants are repealed … the Masse is abrogate.
a. 1845. Southey, Inscriptions, xlv. Wks. III. 177. The promise on the Mount vouchsafed, Nor abrogate by any later law.
