Why this word is great
OBROGATE — [Verb] To annul a law by enacting a new one, effectively overwriting the old statute rather than merely discarding it. From Latin obrogō ("to alter or annul a law by proposing a new one"), from ob- ("against") + rogāre ("to propose a law"). Unlike "repeal" (which simply voids a law) or "derogate" (which nibbles at its edges), obrogation is a legislative sleight of hand—a quiet coup where the new law slips into the old law’s place like a usurper donning a crown. It is the slow, bureaucratic equivalent of rewriting history: a zoning ordinance erased by a developer’s petition, a tax code silently supplanted by loopholes, or a constitution amended until its original spirit is unrecognizable. The past is not destroyed, but made irrelevant.