<blockquote>The fox roams far <b>abroad</b>. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; <as>as, to walk <ex>abroad</ex></as>.</def>
<blockquote>I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court <b>abroad</b>. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; <as>as, we have broils at home and enemies <ex>abroad</ex></as>.</def> "Another prince . . . was living <i>abroad</i>."
<i>Macaulay.</i>
<p><b>4.</b> <def>Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.</def>
<blockquote>He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze <b>abroad</b> the matter. <i>Mark i. 45.</i></blockquote>
<cs><col>To be abroad</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you <i>are all abroad<i> in your guess. <sd>(b)</sd> To be at a loss or nonplused.</cd></cs>
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<hw>Ab"ro*ga*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being abrogated.</def>
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<hw>Ab"ro*gate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>abrogatus</ets>, <ets>p</ets>. <ets>p</ets>.]</ety> <def>Abrogated; abolished.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Latimer.</i>
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<hw>Ab"ro*gate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Abrogated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Abrogating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>abrogatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>abrogare</ets>; <ets>ab + rogare</ets> to ask, require, propose. See <er>Rogation</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.</def>
<blockquote>Let us see whether the New Testament <b>abrogates</b> what we so frequently see in the Old. <i>South.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or <b>abrogate</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>To put an end to; to do away with.</def>
<i>Shak.</i>
<syn>Syn. -- To abolish; annul; do away; set aside; revoke; repeal; cancel; annihilate. See <er>Abolish</er>.</syn>
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<hw>Ab`ro*ga"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>abrogatio</ets>, fr. <ets>abrogare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>abrogation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.</def>
<i>Hume.</i></blockquote>
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<hw>Ab"ro*ga*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending or designed to abrogate; <as>as, an <ex>abrogative</ex> law</as>.</def>
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<hw>Ab"ro*ga`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who repeals by authority.</def>
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