Abortive vs Abrogate - What's the difference?
abortive | abrogate |
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely.
Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful.
* 1799 edition, , Paradise Lost :
* (rfdate),
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine, rare, attributive) Causing abortion; abortifacient
* (Parr)
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
(obsolete) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
* "Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive , rooting hog!" - Shakespeare, Richard III, I-iii
(obsolete) A fruitless effort or issue.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.4:
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
* (rfdate) (Robert South)
* (Edmund Burke), 1796. Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
To put an end to; to do away with.
(molecular biology) Block a process or function
As adjectives the difference between abortive and abrogate
is that abortive is (obsolete) produced by abortion; born prematurely while abrogate is (archaic) abrogated; abolished .As verbs the difference between abortive and abrogate
is that abortive is (obsolete) to cause an abortion; to render without fruit while abrogate is to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc .As a noun abortive
is (obsolete) that which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion .abortive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an abortive child
- an abortive attempt
- and with utter loss of being
- Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.
- An abortive enterprise.
- an abortive organ
- an abortive stamen
- an abortive ovule
- abortive medicines
- abortive treatment of typhoid fever
- abortive vellum
Derived terms
* abortivenessNoun
(en noun)References
*abrogate
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
Verb
(abrogat)- Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
- Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate .