KJV Dictionary Definition: abolish

abolish

ABOL'ISH, v.t. L. abolco; from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.

1. To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions - as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.

2. To destroy, or put an end to; as to abolish idols. Isa. ii. To abolish death 2Tim. i. This sense is not common. To abolish posterity, in the translation of Pausanias, Lib. 3. Ca. 6, is hardly allowable.

abolishable

ABOL'ISHABLE, a. That may be annulled, abrogated, or destroyed, as a law, rite, custom, &c.

abolished

ABOL'ISHED, pp. annulled; repealed; abrogated, or destroyed.

abolisher

ABOL'ISHER, n. One who abolishes.

abolishing

ABOL'ISHING, ppr. Making void; annulling; destroying.

abolishment

ABOL'ISHMENT, n. The act of annulling; abrogation; destruction.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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