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1660, Robert South, “The Scribe instructed, &c.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume 2, page 252:
But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testamentabrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.
1796, Edmund Burke, Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.:
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.
1961, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Suicide Act 1961, page 14:
The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.
2000, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2000”, in Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette, page A1059:
The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4:
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.
References
^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 4