To Abólish. v.a. [from aboles, Lat. to blot out.]
- To annul.
For us to abolish what he hath established, were presumption most intolerable. Hooker, b. iii. § 10.
On the parliament's part it was proposed, that all the bishops, deans, and chapters, might be immediately taken away, and abolished. Clarendon, b. viii.
- To put an end to; to destroy.
The long continued wars, between the English and the Scots, had then raised invincible jealousies and hate, which long continued peace hath since abolished. Sir John Hayward.
That shall Perocles well requite, I wot,
And, with thy blood, abolish so reproachful blot. Fairy Queen, b. ii. cant. 4. stanza 45.More destroyed than they,
We should be quite abolish'd, and expire. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. ii. l. 92.Or wilt thou thyself
Abolish thy creation, and unmake
For him, what for thy glory thou hast made? Idem, b. iii. l. 163.Fermented spirits contract, harden, and consolidate many fibres together, abolishing many canals; especially where the fibres are the tenderest, as in the brain. Arbuth. on Aliments
Nor could Vulcanian flame
The stench abolish, or the favour tame. Dryd. Virg. Geo. iii.
