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[BROAD.] Broad. (Minsheu.) *a-bro-di-ět-i-cal, a. [Gr. ἁβροδίαιτος (habrodiaitos): fr. ἁβρός ( habros ) = graceful, delicate, luxurious; διαιτα ( diaita ) = mode of life.] [DIET.] Feeding daintily, delicate, luxurious. ( Minsheu: Guide into Tongues, A.D. 1627.) ( Wright.) ab-rōg-a-ble, a. [ABROGATE.] Able to be abrogated; that may be abrogated. "An institution abrogable by no power le than divine." Dr. H. More: Letter viii, at the end of his Life by R. Ward, p. 326. ab-rō-gāte, v t . [In Fr. abroger ; Sp. abrogar ; from Lat a brog at us , pa par. of abrogo = to repeal (a law): ab; rogo to ask; ( spec .) to propose a bill.] 1. To annul; to repeal as a law, either by formally abolishing it, or by pa ing another act which supersedes the first. statutes, regularly pa ed, and not yet regularly abrogated ."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xi. *2. More general sense: To put an end to. so it shall please you to abrogate scurrility."Shakesp. Love's Labour's Lost , iv. 2. ab'-rō-gate, a. [ABROGATE, v.t. ] Abrogated. whether any of those abrogate days have been kept as holidays."- King Edw. VI.: Injunctions. ab-rō-gāt-ěd, pa . par . & a . [ABROGATE, v.t.] ab'-rō-gāt-ing, pr . par . [ABROGATE, v.t. ] ab-rc-gā'-tion, s. [ABROGATE, v.t. ] [In Fr. abrogation; fr. Lat. abrogatio.] The act of abrogating. The repeal by the legislature of a law previously binding. It is different from ROGATION, DEROGATION, SUBROGATION, DISPENSATION, and ANTIQUATION, all which see. "The.. principle of abrogation annuls all those sentences of the Koran which speak in a milder tone of unbelievers."-Milman: Hist . Lat. Christ . , bk. iv., ch. i. *a-broke, *a-brō-ken, pa . par . [ABREKEN.] 1. Gen.: Broken. 2. Spec.: Having a rupture. (Kennet: MS. Glo ary.) ( Hall i well .) 3. Broken out; escaped. "But devel is a broken oute of helle." Sir Ferumbras MS . (Hall i well.)