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Abdicate: Definition and part of speech

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Abdicate

  1. v. i. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
  2. 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.
  3. v. t. To renounce; to relinquish; — said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
  4. v. t. To reject; to cast off.
  5. v. t. To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abdication: Definition and part of speech

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Abdication

  1. n. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.