2. Though a King may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to those who conferred it, or without their consent; also to abandon a throne, without a formal surrender of the crown.
3. To relinquish an office before the expiration of the time of service.
5. To cast away; to renounce; as to abdicate our mental faculties [Unusual.]
6. In the civil law, to disclaim a son and expel him from the family, as a father; to disinherit during the life of the father.
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
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.
2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
3. To reject; to cast off.
4. To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Laxity Roget’s Thesaurus §738
N. laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication
V. be -lax, laisser faire, laisser aller, hold a loose rein, give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to, tolerate, relax, misrule, go beyond the length of one's tether, have one's swing, have one's fling, act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority, act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority, dethrone, depose, abdicate
Resignation Roget’s Thesaurus §757
V. resign, give up, throw up, lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract, deny, abrogate, desert, get rid of, abdicate, vacate, vacate one's seat, accept the stewardship of the chiltern hundreds, retire, tender one's resignation
Adj. abdicant
Phr. "othello's occupation's gone"
No Bible verses found for "Abdicate".