Abrogate vs Propagate - What's the difference?
abrogate | propagate |
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.4:
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
* (rfdate) (Robert South)
* (Edmund Burke), 1796. Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
To put an end to; to do away with.
(molecular biology) Block a process or function
To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
* Daniel Defoe
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(obsolete) To multiply; to increase.
* Shakespeare
To generate; to produce.
* De Quincey
To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
(computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
(computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
In lang=en terms the difference between abrogate and propagate
is that abrogate is to put an end to; to do away with while propagate is to have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.As verbs the difference between abrogate and propagate
is that abrogate is to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc while propagate is to cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.As an adjective abrogate
is (archaic) abrogated; abolished .abrogate
English
Adjective
(-)- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
Verb
(abrogat)- Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
- Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate .
Synonyms
* (to annul by authoritative act) abolish, annul, countermand, invalidate, nullify, overrule, overturn, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, supersede, suspend, undo, veto, void, waive, withdraw * (to put an end to) abjure, annihilate, cancel, dissolve, do away with, end, obliterate, obviate, recant, subvert, terminate, vitiate, wipe outAntonyms
* establish * fixReferences
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* * English heteronyms ----propagate
English
Verb
- The infection was propagated insensibly.
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- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate .
- Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
- It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.
- The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.
