Look up: abdicate

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   Abdicate
   Abdicate means to renounce one's thrown.
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   abdicate
   [Verb] To give up being a king or queen.
   Example: The public was sad when the King abdicated.
   See also: abdication
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   abdicate
   [v] - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
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   Abdicate
   Ab'di·cate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Abdicated ; present participle & verbal noun Abdicating .] [ Latin abdicatus , past participle of abdicare ; ab + dicare to proclaim, akin to dicere to say. See Diction .] 1. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to ...
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   Abdicate
   Ab'di·cate intransitive verb 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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   abdicate
   verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; `The King abdicated when he married a divorcee`
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   Abdicate
   • (v. t.) 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. • (v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. • (v. t.) To reject; to cast off. • (v. t.) To ...
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   abdicate
   abdicate 1. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own, to disclaim, disown, cast off; especially, to disown or disinherit children. Now only as a technical term of Roman Law (Latin abdicare filium, also abdicare patrem). 2. To formally give up (a right, trust, office, or dignity); to renounce, lay down, surrender, abandon; at first implying volunta...
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