Definizione monolingua

abdicate

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

1. (transitive) 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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edward Gibbon:

     The cross-bearers abdicated their service.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Burke:

     He abdicates all right to be his own governor.

   • (Can we date this quote?) James Anthony Froude:

     The understanding abdicates its functions.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off.
3. (transitive, law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
4. (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Burke:

     Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

Definizione dizionario abdicate

	abdicare
	surrender or relinquish
	reject
	disinherit
	renounce a throne
	To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, in a formal manner.

cedere

abbandonare

rinunciare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive, law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

(transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off.

*relinquish a *throne, *power, etc., *resign