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Abrogate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Abrogate comes from the Latin root rogāre, which means "to propose a law," and ab-, meaning "from" or "away." Proposals aside, there's no abrogating our responsibility to report that rogāre is the root of a number of English words, including prerogative, derogatory, arrogant, surrogate, and interrogate.  

To abrogate something is to repeal or cancel it, so abrogation is the act of repealing or cancelling.  

The earliest known use of the adjective abrogate is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for abrogate is from before 1460, in the writing of Osbern Bokenham, poet and Augustinian friar. abrogate is a borrowing from Latin.  Although according to most dictionaries, the first known use of the word "abrogate" in English was around the early 1500s, with the earliest evidence appearing around 1520.