[ad. L. abrogātiōnem repeal, n. of action, from abrogāre: see ABROGATE a. Perhaps immed. from Fr. abrogation 16th c. in Littré.] The act of abrogating; repeal or abolition by authority. (Not now used of persons or things concrete.)
1535. Coverdale, Mal. iii. Contents. Off the abrogacion of the olde leuiticall presthoode.
1617. Janua Ling., 1041. To repeale a statute is as much as an abrogation.
1651. Hobbes, Leviathan, II. xxvii. 157. The Command, as to that particular fact, is an abrogation of the Law.
1692. S. Johnson (title), An Argument proving, that the Abrogation of King James by the People … was according to the Constitution.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. Pref. 48. The universal sorrow which the abrogation of that feast would occasion.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. iv. 83. The act would be oppressive … and the abrogation of a settled right.
