abdicate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
2. fiil To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
3. fiil To depose.
4. fiil To reject; to cast off; to discard.

   “[W]e were legally call'd by his Majeſties writ to give our Attendance in Parliament, […] if we did not, we ſhould betray the Truſt committed to us by his Majeſtie, and ſhamefully betray and abdicate the due right both of our ſelves and Succeſſours.”

5. fiil To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.

   “to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy”

6. fiil 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.”