Abdicate

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Etymology

From Latin abdicatus, past participle of abdicare, formed from ab- + dicare "to proclaim", akin to dicere to say.

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Pronunciation

RP:
- IPA: /ËÃ¦bdÉªkeÉªt/
US:
- SAMPA: /{bdIkEt/

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Verb

to abdicate (third-person singular simple present abdicates, present participle abdicating, simple past abdicated, past participle abdicated)

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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
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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

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Translations

to surrender or relinquish

Dutch: afstand doen (van)

French: abdiquer

to reject

Dutch: weigeren, afwijzen

to disinherit

Dutch: onterven

to renounce a throne

Dutch: aftreden, troonsafstand doen, abdiceren

French: abdiquer

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