This usurping emperor, who had delivered Germany from the Turks, abolished in his dominions the Protestant religion, so far as edicts and persecution could deprive the Protestants of their religious liberties.
The practice was abolished by law in the year 1822.
This punishment was not abolished until by statute 12 George III.
Trial by combat was abolished in 1001, and the penalty of the imaginary crime of witchcraft was blotted from the statutes of the island nearly half a century before it ceased to disgrace those of Great Britain.
The feudal system was abolishedearlier in Italy than elsewhere; but with feudalism departed the ancient honour of brave knights, and the virtues of chivalry.
She is not only ours, but, by an overwhelming majority of the popular vote, carried into effect by her constitutional convention, has abolished slavery, and enrolled herself as one of the Free States of the American Union.
By their own votes they have abolished slavery, and have been admitted as one of the Free States of the American Union.
Let electoral colleges be abolished as meaningless and cumbersome anomalies.
Slavery is not only abolished in the Federal District, containing the capital of the Union, but in all our vast territorial domain, comprising more than eight hundred millions of acres, and nearly half the size of all Europe.
Strange that the legislators of Massachusetts did not perceive the force of this reasoning when they abolished the laws for hanging witches and whipping Quakers.
You inform the public that, at the time the Constitution was formed, "Slavery had been abolished in some of the States, and still existed in others.
In this way, Sir, was slavery abolished in Massachusetts, and hence the delegates from Massachusetts in the Convention were the only ones who represented a free State.
Of the thirteen American States in 1787, how many, Sir, had by law abolished slavery?
Thus we learn from you, Sir, that when the Constitution was formed, "slavery had been abolished in some of the States.
The office of captain-general was abolished and power passed to a junta of seven.
Negro slavery was abolished and the movement was altogether in the direction of democracy and against the property-holding classes.
The new president's first act was to summon a convention which abolished the last traces of Herran's moderately centralising Constitution, and depriving the executive of the power of naming provincial governors.
On the face of the returns Ospina received a plurality, but the radicals were able to force the adoption of a new federal Constitution in 1859 which abolished the old provinces.
A law in Norway, termed the odels right, has lately been modified, and probably will be abolished as an impediment to commerce.
Henry "abolished the curfew, for though it is mentioned in our laws a full century afterwards, yet it is rather spoken of as a known time of night (so denominated from that abrogated usage) than as a still subsisting custom.
Should home-study for pupils in grade schools be abolished and longer school-hours substituted?
Yet I could see that my talk to her had altogether abolished the clear-cut distance of our meeting in the park.
The concordat was abolished in 1868 because of the bitter opposition of the liberals.
And, also, whether the office of Surveyor-General, and some of the land offices, may not be abolished without detriment to the public interest.
The early Christians abolished all the heathen rubbish and abominations, the early Radicals would have hurried, in the first instance, to pick out the plums.
On being apprised of this circumstance, the admirable Emperor numbered him with the victorious martyrs, and abolished these iniquitous spectacles.
They abolished the whipping post, the branding iron, the stocks, and other barbarous forms of punishment which had up to that time prevailed.
Not until Brazil abolished slavery in 1888 did the importation wholly cease.
Denmark had alreadyabolished the trade, and the United States attempted to do so the following year.
Legal slavery has been abolished leaving, however, vestiges in debt slavery, peonage, and the convict lease system.
Of the corruption which had grown upon the Roman republic before Christ abolished the worship of the gods.
This is the great act which established the Court of Probate, and abolished the jurisdiction of the courts ecclesiastical.
When the proud Order was abolishedby the Pope, Edward II.
The Order was formally abolished by Pope Clement V.
In the Institutes, this distinction wasabolished and both declared illegal.
As the manners of Rome were insensibly polished, the criminal code of the decemvirs was abolished by the humanity of accusers, witnesses, and judges; and impunity became the consequence of immoderate rigor.
Even the Gothic victories of Belisarius were prejudicial to the state, since they abolished the important barrier of the Upper Danube, which had been so faithfully guarded by Theodoric and his daughter.
The first consuls succeeded to this regal prerogative; but the sacred right of appeal soon abolished the jurisdiction of the magistrates, and all public causes were decided by the supreme tribunal of the people.
A similar principle dictated the Voconian law, [147] which abolished the right of female inheritance.
Natural perception, in its ratio positiva, is not abolished or degraded by being converted into sensation, but is rather exalted, or gifted with a more dignified nature.
The negatio formalis is destroyed or abolishedin any case of impression communicated to the sensorium.
And the feudalism which had existed in Japan for over eight centuries was abolished by the following laconic imperial decree of August, 1871: "The clans are abolished, and prefectures are established in their places.
It played an important part in the history of the Crusades, but in 1171 wasabolished by the famous Saladin, and Egypt was restored to the obedience which it had formerly owned to Bagdad.
He issued a prohibition against the marriage of the clergy, and in a council at Rome abolished the right of investiture.
As the husband's rights to such an estate have been abolished in many states, we refrain from adding more principles.
Justinian first raised the period of waiting to ten years, and then entirely abolished divorce for this cause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abolished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
