Abrogo, ábrogas, pen. corr. abrogaui, abrogâtum, abrogâre. Ey publike consent to disanull: to fordoe: to take away and make of none effect: to abolish: to abrogate.Abrogare legi & legem dicimus: sed vsitatius accusatiuo iungitur.Liu.Vbi duæ contrariæ leges sunt, semper antiquæ abrogat noua.Doth fordoe, or take away.Vt legem Semproniam abrogauerit.Cic.Tollere & abrogare legem.Cic.To dissolue, or repell.Alicui imperium abrogare, magistratum, potestatem.Cic.Liu.To depose, or depriue him of his office.Potestatem intercedendi collegæ abrogauit.Cic.He tooke away.Quempiam abrogare, figuratè dictum.Plin. iunior. Lepidum acta Syllæ rescindere volentem Italia abrogauit.He expelled out of Italy.Fidem homini abrogare, aut alicui rei.Plaut.Liu.Cic.To make it no more to be beleeued: to bring out of credite.Herbis fidem abrogare. Plin. Abrogare quoque sibi fidem dicitur, qui se talem gerit, r ei non credatur.Liu.To bring himselfe out of credite.Multam abrogare, Vide in multam dicere.Beneficijs abrogare vires. Plin. To esteeme them as no benefites: to comit them of no value.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ab-rŏgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.Lit., polit. t. t.: to annul in all its parts a law now in force, to repeal, to abrogate wholly (whereas derogo means to abrogate partly and abrogo to counteract; v. these verbs), = a)pokuro/w: rogando legem tollere, Front. Diff. 2195 P.; v. rogo (very freq. in Cic.): huic legi nec obrogari fas est, neque derogari ex hac aliquid licet, neque tota abrogari potest,
this law cannot be invalidated by an opposing one
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nor modified by restrictions
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nor wholly repealed
, Cic. Rep. 3, 22, from which example (cf. also id. ib. 2, 37; id. Att. 3, 23, 2, and many others in Liv.) it is evident that abrogare was constr. in the classical period with acc., and not, as later, with dat.; cf. Liv. 9, 34 Drak.—B. Of a civil office: magistratum alicui, to take it from one, to recall it: si tibi magistratum abrogāsset, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 57; id. Dom. 83; so id. Off. 3, 10: Cato legem promulgavit de imperio Lentulo abrogando, id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1 (so the correct read., not Lentuli).—II.Trop., in gen., to take away, to deprive of: male fidem servando illis quoque abrogant fidem,
deprive others of credit
, Plaut. Trin. 4, 4, 41; so Cic. Rosc. Com. 15; id. Ac. 2, 11; Auct. ad Her. 1, 10.