Abdicate
Abdicate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[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 withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II., to abandon without a formal surrender.
2.
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
The understanding abdicates its functions.
3.
To reject; to cast off. [Obsolete] — Bp. Hall
4.
(Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Abdicate ({not transcribed}) , 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.