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Abdicate
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What's The Definition Of Abdicate?
[v] give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Abdicate: renounce Related Terms | Find terms related to Abdicate: abandon | abjure | acknowledge defeat | be pensioned | be superannuated | cashier | cast | cease | cede | cry quits | demit | desist from | drop | forgo | forswear | give over | give up | hand over | have done with | jettison | lay down | leave | leave off | pension off | quit | reject | relinquish | renounce | renounce the throne | resign | retire | retire from office | scrap | shed | slough | stand aside | stand down | step aside | superannuate | surrender | throw away | throw out | throw up | vacate | waive | withdraw from | wrest | yield See Also | give up | resign | vacate Abdicate In Webster's Dictionary \Ab"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abdicated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Abdicating}.] [L. abdicatus, p. p. of abdicare; ab +
dicare to proclaim, akin to dicere to say. See {Diction}.]
1. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to
withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high
office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the
crown, the papacy.
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of
James II., to abandon without a formal surrender.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
--Gibbon.
2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust,
duty, right, etc.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
--Burke.
The understanding abdicates its functions. --Froude.
3. To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
4. (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a
father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Syn: To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon;
resign; renounce; desert.
Usage: To {Abdicate}, {Resign}. Abdicate commonly expresses
the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally
yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the
government. Resign is applied to the act of any
person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust
into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a
minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk
resigns. The expression, ``The king resigned his
crown,'' sometimes occurs in our later literature,
implying that he held it from his people. -- There are
other senses of resign which are not here brought into
view.
\Ab"di*cate\, v. i. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. --Burke. |
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