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abdicate
verb
(
abdicat, ing
)
(
transitive
) To surrender, renounce 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
He
abdicates
all right to be his own governor. - Edmund Burke
The understanding
abdicates
its functions. - Froude
(
transitive
) (
obsolete
) To reject; to cast off. - Bp. Hall
(
transitive
) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
(
intransitive
) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
Though a king may
abdicate
for his own person, he cannot
abdicate
for the monarchy. w:Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke
Translations:
Dutch: aftreden, troonsafstand doen, abdiceren
French: abdiquer
Spanish: abdicar
(
trans-bottom
)
Etymology:
From (
term, abdicatus, lang=la
), past participle of (
term, abdicare, lang=la
), formed from (
term, ab-, lang=la
) + (
term, dicare, , to proclaim, lang=la
), akin to (
term, dicere, , to say, lang=la
).
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