c1475						 (    in   		(1911)	 26 514 (MED)  				It is hard to abolysshe a rumour that is oones taken in the wlgare voyce.
1490    W. Caxton tr.   xxvi. 94  				Thou hast abolysshed my fraunchise.
1537    in   		(1834)	 II. 495  				Item, that the greate peckes of otes..and suche other nedeles extortions..be clerly abolysheid.
1542     II. 488  				This yere was the bishop of Rome..abholished quit out of this realme.
?1542    H. Brinkelow  xix. sig. E5v  				How can wickydnesse abolyssh wyckednesse? but rather increase it.
1590    E. Spenser   ii. iv. sig. Q4  				And with thy blood abolish so reprochfull blott.
1607    E. Topsell  477  				He doth craftily dissemble and abolish his footesteps to deceiue the Hunters.
1609    J. Skene tr.   4  				The fourtie dayes, or thrie sunnes, granted to the persewer..is discharged and abollissed.
1611     Isa. ii. 18  				And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish .       View more context for this quotation
1697    J. Dryden tr.  Virgil Georgics  iii, in  tr.  Virgil  121  				Nor cou'd Vulcanian Flame The Stench abolish; or the Savour  tame.       View more context for this quotation
1718    Lady M. W. Montagu  31 July 		(1965)	 I. 419  				The adventure..abolish'd that heathenish Ceremony.
1780    E. Burke  		(1844)	 II. 327  				I propose..to abolish..all the offices of the kitchen, cellar, spicery, &c.
1837    T. Carlyle  I.  v. ix. 291  				Thus, in any case, with what rubs soever, shall the Bastille be abolished from our Earth.
1854    C. Kingsley  		(1878)	 I. 415  				Some dislike the notion of its being possible to abolish pestilence by sanitary reform.
1877     5 Nov. 5/1  				We know that the best way to abolish darkness is to give light, that the best way to abolish folly is to spread wisdom.
1925    E. Fraser  & J. Gibbons  255  				Shell shock... Since the war, the term has been officially abolished, in favour of the technical term ‘Psycho-neurosis’.
1965     47  				Medical prescription charges would be abolished (at a cost of £25 million a year) and pensions would be increased.
1997     Spring 111/3  				A ‘dream catcher’ to hang over my bed—the Navajo believe the net-like charm catches and abolishes bad dreams.