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When a government, a court, or two countries abrogate something, they officially end it. What they end is usually a law, a treaty (a written deal between countries), or a rule that used to have force. After that, it does not count any more — not because people slowly forgot it, but because someone with power said, in a formal way, that it is over. This is a news-and-law word, not a kitchen word: you do not abrogate bedtime or a picnic. Though actually, writers also stretch it. You will see “abrogate your responsibility,” meaning someone threw off a duty they should have kept. That is not a court ending a treaty; it is a rather grand way to say they failed to do their job. Some careful writers dislike that stretch; you will still meet it. A close friend is , which is the everyday-serious word for ending a whole system (a tax, a cruel practice). Abrogate keeps the paper-and-seal feeling.
廢止、撤銷（條約、法令）
組成From Latin abrogō, “to repeal”: ab- “away / off” + rogō “to ask.” The old picture is “to ask that a law be taken away.” English took it in the 1500s from Middle English abrogat, “abolished.” The ending -ate makes the verb.
同家族的字
- abrogationthe noun: the official ending itself
- interrogatesame Latin rogō, “to ask”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abrogateverb/ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/
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lawTo annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
- But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.
- Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.
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To put an end to; to do away with.
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To block a process or function.
abrogateadj/ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/
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archaicAbrogated; abolished.
- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。