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Definition of Abolishes

1. abolish [v] - See also: abolish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abolishes

Literary usage of Abolishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"PETRARCH CONGRATULATES URBAN — FRANCE AND ITALY—CONDITION OF ROME—URBAN abolishes THE ... abolishes ..."

2. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"In that contingency the statute abolishes the defense of contributory negligence not only as a bar to recovery but for all purposes. ..."

3. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1901)
"Reformed Consumption abolishes Anti-Social Competition. § 17. Life itself must become Qualitative. § 18. Organic Relations between Production and ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... The eleventh section abolishes three months' pay for reenlistments ; The thirteenth section repeals the fifth section of the act approved September ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The former abolishes life in the highest sense; the latter gives it anew. This contrast has been employed for the classification of sin as pardonable and ..."

6. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"... which it is given— Convertibility a dangerous check— Employed with fatal effect against those who rely upon it — It abolishes time on commercial paper. ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"of Pius X abolishes the Congregation of Regulara and Bishops and transfère that part of its business which concerns bishops to the Congregation of the ..."

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