abdicate
v. relinquish office or power, resign; renounce, give up | ||||
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Abdicated Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Abdicated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Abdicate
(imp. & p. p.)
of Abdicate
| WordNet 2.0 |
abdicate
Verb
1. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
(synonym) renounce
(hypernym) vacate, resign, renounce, give up
(derivation) abdication, stepping down
Verb
1. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
(synonym) renounce
(hypernym) vacate, resign, renounce, give up
(derivation) abdication, stepping down
Abdicated Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Abdication
Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs, or those who have been formally crowned. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation.
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