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to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Capable of being abolished.

One who abolishes.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.…

the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

er, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished.

d on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

hon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III.

ici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden. Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.

commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.

rt of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [Eng.]

A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone.

t of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. Cowell.

t for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.