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Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 30, 2014-- abrogate
Posted on 07/30/2014 5:24:42 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 30, 2014-- abrogate
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
abrogate [ab-ruh-geyt]
hear it pronounced
verb, transitive (used with object)
abrogated, abrogating.
1. to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal: to abrogate a law.
2. to put aside; put an end to.
Origin: 1520-30 from Latin abrogātus repealed, from ab- 1 + rogāre to propose (a law)]
Related forms
abrogable [ab-ruh-guh-buh l], adjective
abrogation, noun
abrogative, adjective
abrogator, noun
nonabrogable, adjective
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Barack Obama is making every effort to abrogate our founding document, The Constitution.
To: upchuck; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Thanks to Upchuck for suggesting today’s word. Let’s get that homework in!
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:26:13 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
yeah, like yer ain’t gonna get me anywhere near florida - to many abrogaters there. i might get et.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:27:53 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
It is the duty of every American to abrogate a tyrannical federal government. I believe we’re far past the point of no return.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:28:43 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:31:17 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I am only familiar with the derivation on the word, "nobrogate":
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:34:16 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Hegewisch Dupa
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:34:39 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
sadly, since it’s only half-bro, it managed to eventually get thru.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Absolute abrogation of ancient American archival authority by an unaudited alien:
What difference does it make?"
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:38:59 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The Federal Government needs to TOTALLY abrogate the vile law known as “obamacare”, and to expunge all the bureaucracy it created from the face of the Earth!!!!
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:39:31 AM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Those of us who wish to have him abrogate his usurped power have noticed that he keeps arrogating more.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:41:02 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Will all of you people who keep "fixing" things please stop? Making them work again is killing me.)
To: camle
A++
Cute!
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:41:36 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: rarestia
A++
Anti-illegals demonstrations in uber-liberal Massachusetts was a good sign.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:43:17 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: xsmommy
A+++
Good article. Maybe my fellow Hebrews will finally wake up. Those tunnels are tough to deny, even for those in denial.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:45:13 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Violent teachings of Mohammed in Medina abrogate earlier peaceful Meccan Islam.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:46:12 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Obama: Race is his cover...jihad is his game.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
A++
What—no team of marines to keep the King and Queen from having to work their own umbrellas?
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:46:17 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: Diogenesis
A++++
Excellent alliteration, excellent graphics.
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:48:23 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
07/30/2014 5:50:24 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Democrats keeps talking about how they will “overturn” the Hobby Lobby decision. Apparently they don’t know the difference between overturn and abrogate, as it applies to Supreme Court rulings.
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