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To derogate, in law, is to say in an official way that part of a law or an agreement has ended — that piece no longer has any legal power. You are not throwing the whole law away; you are taking one part out, or setting it aside. Lawyers also write derogate from a right or a treaty, meaning to it or to make an exception to it. Away from legal paper, the verb is rare. Older writing could use it to talk someone or something down, but that job now belongs mostly to . In ordinary talk, people say cancel, repeal, or take away from. Though actually, students meet a hundred times for every one derogate. They are a family, not twins.
部分廢止（法律用語；「減損權利」是另一個常見講法）
組成From Late Middle English, from Latin dērogātus, from dērogō: dē- (from) + rogō (to ask; to propose a law), meaning to cancel part of a law, or to take away from it. There is also an old adjective from the same Latin form, meaning already cancelled.
同家族的字
- derogatorysame Latin verb; in English, derogate + -ory
- abrogatesame Latin rogō 'to ask / propose a law'; abrogate cancels a law, derogate takes part of it away
原始詞典資料7 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。
derogateverb詞源 1/ˈdɛɹəɡeɪt/
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To partially repeal (a law etc.).
- By several contrary customs, […] many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.
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To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
- I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause [...].
- When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively stereotyped groups.
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To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
- Anything […] that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
- It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
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To detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
- In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
- God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.
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To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
- CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't? SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate, my lord.
- Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?
derogateadj詞源 2
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obsoleteDerogated, annulled in part.
- The once made oblation of Christes is herby derogate, when this sacramentall oblation and offering of thankes geuing is beleued to be propiciatory, and that it purgeth the soule, as well of the lyuynge as of the deade, agaynst this saying to the Hebrues: with one only oblation he hath made perfect for euer those that are sanctyfyed. Agayne where is remission, there is no more oblation for synnes, making vs cleane by hym.
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archaicDebased, deteriorated.
- It may be ſo, my Lord. Heare Nature, heare deere Goddeſſe, heare : Suſpend thy purpoſe, if thou did'ſt intend To make this Creature fruitfull : Into her Wombe conuey ſtirrility, Drie vp in her the Organs of increaſe, And from her derogate body, neuer ſpring A Babe to honor her.
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。