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Definition of Abolished
1. abolish [v] - See also: abolish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abolished
Literary usage of Abolished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1867)
"74, fines are abolished, and more simple modes of assurance are substituted.—Hov.
Page 159. (16) But such actions of debt or scire facias upon a ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He united the administration of all the provinces in the central council at
Vienna, of which he himself was the head, while he abolished their diets or ..."
3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Ship-money abolished. ... abolished. prerogative of levying customs on merchandise.
By this Act (which granted to the king tonnage and poundage for less ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Two Bills were framed for the abolition of these survivals of medievalism ; and,
on June 17, 1747, both received the royal assent. The first abolished (from ..."
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