Abrogate vs Extirpate - What's the difference?
abrogate | extirpate |
(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
(obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
To destroy completely; to annihilate.
To surgically remove.
In lang=en terms the difference between abrogate and extirpate
is that abrogate is to put an end to; to do away with while extirpate is to surgically remove.As verbs the difference between abrogate and extirpate
is that 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 while extirpate is (obsolete) to clear an area of roots and stumps.As an adjective abrogate
is (archaic) abrogated; abolished .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 .