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WordNet
Cartoon about the latest tax reforms that abolish the tax on fuels. De Pers asks the Minister of Finance Betz when the stamp tax will be abolished. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 10, March 5, 1864.
Cartoon about the latest tax reforms that abolish the tax on fuels. De Pers asks the Minister of Finance Betz when the stamp tax will be abolished. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 10, March 5, 1864.
  1. (n) abolishment
    the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) "the abolition of capital punishment"
Illustrations
Gallows meal of several people sentenced to death among spectators in Zierikzee, old custom abolished in 1739.
Gallows meal of several people sentenced to death among spectators in Zierikzee, old custom abolished in 1739.
Gallows meal of several people sentenced to death among spectators in Zierikzee, old custom abolished in 1739. Marked top right: XXXIV. Dl. pl. IV.
Gallows meal of several people sentenced to death among spectators in Zierikzee, old custom abolished in 1739. Marked top right: XXXIV. Dl. pl. IV.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Abolishment
    The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) abolishment
    The act of abolishing or of putting an end to; abrogation; destruction; abolition.
Quotations
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Russell Lowell
The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
Nikita Khrushchev
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
John Swayze
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. abolissement,

Usage in the news

Let's abolish 'having it all' elitism. ashingtonpost.com

One of the most important measures on the November ballot would abolish California's death penalty. abclocal.go.com

Proposition 34, a ballot measure that would abolish the death penalty in California, faces long odds at the polls. illitsnews.com

Utah Congressman Jim Matheson spoke out today against his opponent Mia Love's support for downsizing or abolishing the U-S Department of Education. kuer.org

Abolish House, Senate ethics committees. rdw.com

Gov Nikki Haley wants legislators to abolish the House and Senate ethics committees, so lawmakers aren't policing themselves. rdw.com

Abolish Texas property taxes. star-telegram.com

GOP moves to abolish AmeriCorps, stop funding. ashingtontimes.com

Abolish the Law Reviews. theatlantic.com

Earlier this spring, Republican-controlled legislatures in Kansas and Oklahoma also defeated measures that would have abolished the state-income tax, fearing the loss of revenue. ashingtonpost.com

That's still a far cry from abolishing the personal income tax entirely. ashingtonpost.com

Tom's Opinion: Is It Time to Abolish The Property Tax In Montana. kmmsam.com

Jamaica to abolish slavery-era flogging law. cortezjournal.com

They want to abolish abortion rights, gay rights, establish voter registration restrictions and deport younger illegal immigrants. columbian.com

On November 6, Americans will vote on at least 174 ballot measures in 38 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, weighing in on everything from legalizing marijuana to abolishing the death penalty. motherjones.com

Usage in scientific papers

Relinquishment of quantization abolishes the need for a classical theory.
Spinors in Quantum Geometrical Theory

The second is the proposal of a new view of complexity as a state of transition from dynamics to thermodynamics, denoted as LSM, with the important effect of abolishing the perspective of ordinary statistical mechanics that would make life foreign to physics.
From Knowledge, Knowability and the Search for Objective Randomness to a New Vision of Complexity

This was soon abolished as it turned out to use prohibitive amounts of memory.
Continuum multi-physics modeling with scripting languages: the Nsim simulation compiler prototype for classical field theory

Moreover, our meta-modeling techniques provide a general account of saturation and, thus, abolish its compulsory replication for expressing complex preferences.
Complex Optimization in Answer Set Programming

The Old System When our proposal is a failure, the journal track can be abolished and the conference track’s acceptance rate can be decreased again.
A Revised Publication Model for ECML PKDD

Usage in literature

Secondly, the emperor was bound by the law code: he could not change it nor abolish it. "A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]" by Wolfram Eberhard

In 1870 the mixed courts were abolished, but the main part of the treaty was left in force. "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America" by W. E. B. Du Bois

Intercollegiate athletics should be abolished. "Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index" by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Hereditary nobility was abolished in 1821. "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights" by Kelly Miller

Our teachers found it to be madness and it was abolished. "A Honeymoon in Space" by George Griffith

The Star Chamber and High Commission Courts were abolished. "The Rise of the Democracy" by Joseph Clayton

One of his first acts was to abolish all the privileges which had been conferred upon the Plebeians by Servius. "A Smaller History of Rome" by William Smith and Eugene Lawrence

Why not abolish all the devil's works? "A Preface to Politics" by Walter Lippmann

I should like to be shown a country where slavery has been abolished by the voluntary action of the masters. "Sophisms of the Protectionists" by Frederic Bastiat

Luther thought it was time to abolish private mass. "The Necessity of Atheism" by Dr. D.M. Brooks

Usage in poetry
And, at the very hour designed,
To enslave him past recall,
His tooth-stone-arrow-gun-shy mind
Turned and abolished all.
Whereas if he couldn't get Whisky, Rum, or Brandy,
He wouldn't do his work so handy;
Therefore, in that respect let strong drink be abolished in time,
And that will cause a great decrease in crime.
Ugly and bestial gods caked thick with gold--
Their hideousness
Blaspheming Christ--'mid shattered altars rolled
To rottenness,
Their slaves abolished and their priests of old
Trodden to nothingness.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, pause and think,
And try to abolish the foul fiend, Drink.
Let such doctrine be taught in church and school,
That the abolition of strong drink is the only Home Rule.
If drink was abolished how many peaceful homes would there be,
Just, for instance in the beautiful town of Dundee;
then this world would be heaven, whereas it's a hell,
An the people would have more peace in it to dwell
And the men that get drunk in general wants Home Rule;
But such men, I rather think, should keep their heads cool,
And try and learn more sense, I most earnestlty do pray,
And help to get strong drink abolished without delay.