abdicatev.

Brit.

/ˈabdᵻkeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈæbdəˌkeɪt/

Forms: 1500s abdicate (past participle), 1500s– abdicate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin abdicāt-, abdicāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin abdicāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of abdicāre to resign, to withdraw, to depose, to deny, refuse to acknowledge, to disown, repudiate, to disinherit, to abolish, renounce, discard, to cast off, reject, expel < ab- ab- prefix + dicāre to proclaim, make known (see dication n.). Compare Middle French, French abdiquer to give up a right, a title (reflexive, 1375), to renounce something that one owns (1402), to divest (someone) (of a responsibility, a job) (1400–10), to disinherit, disown (one's child) (1611). Compare also Occitan abdica, Catalan abdicar (1435), Spanish abdicar (1433), Portuguese abdicar (1617), Italian abdicare (1363).

†1. transitive. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obsolete (historical in later use, with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law).

ΚΠ

1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.iii The party defendant wyll lay against hym that he is abdicate or forsaken of his father, and so can nat by the law haue any parte of his goodes.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxvii. f. 90 The father..doth abdicate nowe and then oone, that is to saye, putteth theym out of his familye.

1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xvii. 191 They giue them these iointe offices with the Minister, of abdicating the stubborne, and of consolation of the repentant.

1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 34 Parents may not causelessly abdicate or disinherit children.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xv. 378 Parents were allow'd to be reconcil'd to their Children, but after that could never abdicate them again.

a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. (1768) II. 117 Wherever I disesteemed, I would abdicate my first cousin.

1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 70 Sons were exposed, abdicated, and sold by the laws of Solon.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIV. 20/1 Among the Greeks and Romans, when a father expelled his son from his family, he was said to have abdicated him; and all children so abdicated during the father's life-time, were disinherited at his death.

2. transitive (reflexive). To cut oneself off or separate oneself from someone or something; to rid oneself of; esp. to divest oneself of an office, position, or responsibility. Frequently with from. Also (without construction): to cast off or put aside one's personality or identity.

ΚΠ

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. viii^v To perswade a man..to abdicate him selfe from his empire and imperiall preheminence.

1688 G. Burnet Ill Effects Animosities Protestants 17 A Prince..who, by transgressing against the Laws of the Constitution, hath abdicated himself from the Government, and stands virtually Deposed.

1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 299 The great convention..resolved that King James..had by demise abdicated himself and wholly vacated his right.

1723 G. Hickes Let. to Author in R. Laurence Lay-baptism Invalid (ed. 4) p. xl He is bound..to cancel his Orders, and abdicate himself from the Priesthood.

1767 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Belisarius viii. 74 By consenting to reign, I abdicate myself. The private man is, as it were, annihilated.

1853 Brownson's Q. Rev. 1 3 469 He must concede that she is simply conservative, and not ultra, unless he would have her abdicate herself, abandon the truth, and become the patroness of error.

1880 Primitive Methodist Mag. 61 261/2 A man who had abdicated himself, divested himself of manhood, and left his moral mantle under some tap-room table.

1908 J. Ayscough Marotz xvi. 92 All this..would be neither here nor there if Marotz could abdicate herself, and lay aside all the passionate, emulous, tender Marotz that he knew.

1987 D. J. Raleigh tr. E. N. Burdzhalov Russia's 2nd Revol. v. 299 Former subjects of the Russian tsar said he had abdicated himself long ago from the people.

2005 S. Doyon Greatest Man in Cedar Hole v. 55 Gradually, she abdicated herself from all other household responsibilities..until there was nothing left for her to do.

a. transitive. To give up (a right, duty, office, or position); to renounce, surrender, esp. formally or officially.Chiefly denoting active renunciation, but notably used of James II, who was considered by the Convention Parliament of 1688–9 to have abdicated the throne by default, after fleeing to France. (See quot. 1689.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate (office) [verb (transitive)]

to leave up1422

depone1533

surcease1552

dimit1563

demit1567

abdicate1570

to lay downa1715

vacate1850

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 456/1 Y^e king our soueraign Lord and maister can not abdicate from him selfe thys ryght.

1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 88 He did declare, that he..of his owne will & free motion, did abdicate, the title, dignitie, and aucthoritie of a King.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 41 Abdicating their just privileges.

1689 Ld. Somers Speech 5 Feb. in Debate at Large (1695) 27 For the Abdicateing a thing, it is suffitient to do an Act which is inconsistent with the Retaining it.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. i. 16 The thrones, which he [sc. the Devil] and his followers abdicated and were deposed from.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 476 Whoever shall for three months together omit to attend..shall be considered as having abdicated the Club.

1805 J. Foster Ess. i. vii. 90 To have abdicated the dignity of reason.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) On King James II's leaving the kingdom, and abdicating the government.

1857 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II i. i. 10 The Regent Mary formally abdicated her authority.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 5 A power not indeed to be envied..but still less to be abdicated or despised.

1947 M. E. Boylan This Tremendous Lover (new ed.) xiii. 193 God did not abdicate His supreme dominion over all things.

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food viii. 244 King Stanislas, who abdicated his crown in 1736 and received the duchies of Lorraine and Bar.

2000 S. M. Schneiders in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 493/1 No one is justified in ‘blind obedience’ which abdicates personal responsibility for discerning in conscience the validity of the exercise of authority.

b. intransitive. To renounce or relinquish formally a position or office, esp. that of monarch.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)] > abdicate

resign1395

abdicate1625

1625 G. Salteren Sacræ Heptades vii. 188 The two popes then standing in schisme, were both declared to be Heretikes, and unworthie, and compelled to abdicate, and another was made pope.

a1704 T. Brown Epigr. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 9 Either He must abdicate, or Thou.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. i. 199 The Devil abdicated for a while.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 399 Is it not strange so few kings abdicate; and none yet heard of has been known to commit suicide?

1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin v. iii. 290 The daily routine of frog-pond existence would become deadly dull if King Stork should abdicate.

1936 Times 11 Dec. 16/4 The news of King Edward's decision to abdicate has been received in the dominions with the deepest sorrow.

1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 283 Attorney General Smith told her that she was in no position to abdicate.

1999 M. Sifuniso in Y. Vera Opening Spaces 137 After your departure Sikiti had the decency to abdicate. There was much rejoicing everywhere.

c. transitive. More generally: to cast off, discard, or dismiss; to relinquish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]

forsakec893

forlet971

to reach upOE

agiveOE

yield?c1225

uptake1297

up-yield1297

yield1297

deliverc1300

to-yielda1375

overgivec1384

grant1390

forbeara1400

livera1400

forgoc1400

upgive1415

permit1429

quit1429

renderc1436

relinquish1479

abandonc1485

to hold up?1499

enlibertyc1500

surrender1509

cess1523

relent1528

to cast up?1529

resignate1531

uprender1551

demit1563

disclaim1567

to fling up1587

to give up1589

quittance1592

vail1593

enfeoff1598

revoke1599

to give off1613

disownc1620

succumb1632

abdicate1633

delinquish1645

discount1648

to pass away1650

to turn off1667

choke1747

to jack up1870

chuck up (the sponge)1878

chuckc1879

unget1893

sling1902

to jack in1948

punt1966

to-leave-

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 343 Neither hast thou, O Cyrus, so well knowne me, as to abdicate thine Idolatry.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 527 If the Lord Jesus purposely would defile and abdicate the seventh day Sabbath of the Jew.

1689 R. Russell Let. 16 Mar. (1826) 192 Accidents may abdicate your opinion.

1705 E. H. Suspiria Divina ci. 114 That so Neglecting, yea rejecting and renouncing, abdicating and totally abnegating them [sc. pleasures].

1772 S. Whyte Shamrock 10 He bade me preach: I bow'd, assented, and submissive chose To abdicate the Lyre, and drudge in Prose.

1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar II. 272 When the church abdicates its liberty, it loses its moral virtuality.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost iii. 87 It is not content with abdicating the powers of reason.

1999 New Yorker 5 July 49/2 La Bute's great strength..is to force the audience to take a position rather than to abdicate thought for the sake of fun.

d. transitive. To vacate or leave (a place).

ΚΠ

1691 Wit for Money: or, Poet Stutter 27 This, with abdicating the Coffee-house, and exchanging their Company, for the Society of the more sober and tractable Gentlemen of the Country and City, quasht the business.

1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. vi. 191 The Indians abdicated the ancient Alachua town on the borders of the savanna, and built here, calling the new town Cuscowilla; their reasons for removing their habitation were on account of its unhealthiness.

1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge II. xix. 238 Those who do not remove out of their tenements appear to abdicate nearly every room in them; for what is called the general ‘house-cleaning’ has commenced.

1866 ‘B. Gray’ Out of Town i. 5 Some night, when the children cry so as to keep me awake, I will abdicate my own room, and essay a lodging out-of-doors.

1907 Punch 10 Apr. 267/3 One day he broke it to me how He'd had an unexpected ‘call’ To abdicate the Servants' Hall.

1968 P. Levine Not This Pig 18 He speaks only when his family abdicates the parlour.

2003 Record (Stockton, Calif.) (Nexis) 14 May I'm not ready to abdicate this building for a more-expensive one.

†e. transitive. Insurance. To surrender to an underwriter the right of ownership of (goods insured). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 36 The Owners of such Gold, Silver, or Pearls, cannot renounce or abdicate them to the Underwriters.

1850 S. Meredith tr. B. M. Emerigon Treat. Insurances xvii. 665 The object of insurance is to procure to the assured indemnity for the losses and damages that he suffers; but to obtain this indemnity, it is not necessary, according to the law of nations, that the assured should abdicate his property in the subject.

4. transitive. To depose (a person) from office or authority; esp. to remove (a monarch) from the throne. rare after 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]

outOE

deposec1300

remuec1325

to put out1344

to set downc1369

deprivec1374

outputa1382

removea1382

to throw outa1382

to put downc1384

privea1387

to set adowna1387

to put out of ——?a1400

amovec1425

disappoint1434

unmakec1475

dismiss1477

dispoint1483

voidc1503

to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546

relieve1549

cass1550

displace1553

unauthorize1554

to wring out1560

seclude1572

eject1576

dispost1577

decass1579

overboard1585

cast1587

sequester1587

to put to grass1589

cashier1592

discompose1599

abdicate1610

unseat1611

dismount1612

disoffice1627

to take off1642

unchair1645

destitute1653

lift1659

resign1674

quietus1688

superannuate1692

derange1796

shelve1812

shelf1819

Stellenbosch1900

defenestrate1917

axe1922

retire1961

1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. xiv. 271 He telleth vs of the Emperours going to Rome, and of the Romans yeelding vnto him, and abdicating Pope Gregory, because he refused to appeare before the Emperour.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 168 The Turkes abdicated Cornutus the next heire from the Empire.

1693 J. Dryden Examen Poeticum Ded. sig. A5 Julius Scaliger wou'd needs turn down Homer, and Abdicate him after the possession of Three Thousand Years.

1705 D. Defoe Consolidator 81 A Man may Abdicate, drive away, and Dethrone his Prince.

1753 Parl. Hist. Eng. IX. 430 The greater Part of the Estates of that Kingdom were necessitated, after mature Deliberation, to abdicate him, and to elect Frederick, Prince Elector Palatine, for their king.

1996 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 16/1 Britain would either have become a republic or abdicated him in his absence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	abdicate
释义	abdicatev. Brit. /ˈabdᵻkeɪt/, U.S. /ˈæbdəˌkeɪt/ Forms: 1500s abdicate (past participle), 1500s– abdicate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin abdicāt-, abdicāre. Etymology: < classical Latin abdicāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of abdicāre to resign, to withdraw, to depose, to deny, refuse to acknowledge, to disown, repudiate, to disinherit, to abolish, renounce, discard, to cast off, reject, expel < ab- ab- prefix + dicāre to proclaim, make known (see dication n.). Compare Middle French, French abdiquer to give up a right, a title (reflexive, 1375), to renounce something that one owns (1402), to divest (someone) (of a responsibility, a job) (1400–10), to disinherit, disown (one's child) (1611). Compare also Occitan abdica, Catalan abdicar (1435), Spanish abdicar (1433), Portuguese abdicar (1617), Italian abdicare (1363). †1. transitive. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obsolete (historical in later use, with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law). ΚΠ 1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.iii The party defendant wyll lay against hym that he is abdicate or forsaken of his father, and so can nat by the law haue any parte of his goodes. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxvii. f. 90 The father..doth abdicate nowe and then oone, that is to saye, putteth theym out of his familye. 1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xvii. 191 They giue them these iointe offices with the Minister, of abdicating the stubborne, and of consolation of the repentant. 1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 34 Parents may not causelessly abdicate or disinherit children. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xv. 378 Parents were allow'd to be reconcil'd to their Children, but after that could never abdicate them again. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. (1768) II. 117 Wherever I disesteemed, I would abdicate my first cousin. 1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 70 Sons were exposed, abdicated, and sold by the laws of Solon. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIV. 20/1 Among the Greeks and Romans, when a father expelled his son from his family, he was said to have abdicated him; and all children so abdicated during the father's life-time, were disinherited at his death. 2. transitive (reflexive). To cut oneself off or separate oneself from someone or something; to rid oneself of; esp. to divest oneself of an office, position, or responsibility. Frequently with from. Also (without construction): to cast off or put aside one's personality or identity. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. viii^v To perswade a man..to abdicate him selfe from his empire and imperiall preheminence. 1688 G. Burnet Ill Effects Animosities Protestants 17 A Prince..who, by transgressing against the Laws of the Constitution, hath abdicated himself from the Government, and stands virtually Deposed. 1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 299 The great convention..resolved that King James..had by demise abdicated himself and wholly vacated his right. 1723 G. Hickes Let. to Author in R. Laurence Lay-baptism Invalid (ed. 4) p. xl He is bound..to cancel his Orders, and abdicate himself from the Priesthood. 1767 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Belisarius viii. 74 By consenting to reign, I abdicate myself. The private man is, as it were, annihilated. 1853 Brownson's Q. Rev. 1 3 469 He must concede that she is simply conservative, and not ultra, unless he would have her abdicate herself, abandon the truth, and become the patroness of error. 1880 Primitive Methodist Mag. 61 261/2 A man who had abdicated himself, divested himself of manhood, and left his moral mantle under some tap-room table. 1908 J. Ayscough Marotz xvi. 92 All this..would be neither here nor there if Marotz could abdicate herself, and lay aside all the passionate, emulous, tender Marotz that he knew. 1987 D. J. Raleigh tr. E. N. Burdzhalov Russia's 2nd Revol. v. 299 Former subjects of the Russian tsar said he had abdicated himself long ago from the people. 2005 S. Doyon Greatest Man in Cedar Hole v. 55 Gradually, she abdicated herself from all other household responsibilities..until there was nothing left for her to do. 3. a. transitive. To give up (a right, duty, office, or position); to renounce, surrender, esp. formally or officially.Chiefly denoting active renunciation, but notably used of James II, who was considered by the Convention Parliament of 1688–9 to have abdicated the throne by default, after fleeing to France. (See quot. 1689.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate (office) [verb (transitive)] to leave up1422 depone1533 surcease1552 dimit1563 demit1567 abdicate1570 to lay downa1715 vacate1850 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 456/1 Y^e king our soueraign Lord and maister can not abdicate from him selfe thys ryght. 1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 88 He did declare, that he..of his owne will & free motion, did abdicate, the title, dignitie, and aucthoritie of a King. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 41 Abdicating their just privileges. 1689 Ld. Somers Speech 5 Feb. in Debate at Large (1695) 27 For the Abdicateing a thing, it is suffitient to do an Act which is inconsistent with the Retaining it. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. i. 16 The thrones, which he [sc. the Devil] and his followers abdicated and were deposed from. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 476 Whoever shall for three months together omit to attend..shall be considered as having abdicated the Club. 1805 J. Foster Ess. i. vii. 90 To have abdicated the dignity of reason. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) On King James II's leaving the kingdom, and abdicating the government. 1857 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II i. i. 10 The Regent Mary formally abdicated her authority. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 5 A power not indeed to be envied..but still less to be abdicated or despised. 1947 M. E. Boylan This Tremendous Lover (new ed.) xiii. 193 God did not abdicate His supreme dominion over all things. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food viii. 244 King Stanislas, who abdicated his crown in 1736 and received the duchies of Lorraine and Bar. 2000 S. M. Schneiders in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 493/1 No one is justified in ‘blind obedience’ which abdicates personal responsibility for discerning in conscience the validity of the exercise of authority. b. intransitive. To renounce or relinquish formally a position or office, esp. that of monarch. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)] > abdicate resign1395 abdicate1625 1625 G. Salteren Sacræ Heptades vii. 188 The two popes then standing in schisme, were both declared to be Heretikes, and unworthie, and compelled to abdicate, and another was made pope. a1704 T. Brown Epigr. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 9 Either He must abdicate, or Thou. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. i. 199 The Devil abdicated for a while. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 399 Is it not strange so few kings abdicate; and none yet heard of has been known to commit suicide? 1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin v. iii. 290 The daily routine of frog-pond existence would become deadly dull if King Stork should abdicate. 1936 Times 11 Dec. 16/4 The news of King Edward's decision to abdicate has been received in the dominions with the deepest sorrow. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 283 Attorney General Smith told her that she was in no position to abdicate. 1999 M. Sifuniso in Y. Vera Opening Spaces 137 After your departure Sikiti had the decency to abdicate. There was much rejoicing everywhere. c. transitive. More generally: to cast off, discard, or dismiss; to relinquish. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] forsakec893 forlet971 to reach upOE agiveOE yield?c1225 uptake1297 up-yield1297 yield1297 deliverc1300 to-yielda1375 overgivec1384 grant1390 forbeara1400 livera1400 forgoc1400 upgive1415 permit1429 quit1429 renderc1436 relinquish1479 abandonc1485 to hold up?1499 enlibertyc1500 surrender1509 cess1523 relent1528 to cast up?1529 resignate1531 uprender1551 demit1563 disclaim1567 to fling up1587 to give up1589 quittance1592 vail1593 enfeoff1598 revoke1599 to give off1613 disownc1620 succumb1632 abdicate1633 delinquish1645 discount1648 to pass away1650 to turn off1667 choke1747 to jack up1870 chuck up (the sponge)1878 chuckc1879 unget1893 sling1902 to jack in1948 punt1966 to-leave- 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 343 Neither hast thou, O Cyrus, so well knowne me, as to abdicate thine Idolatry. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 527 If the Lord Jesus purposely would defile and abdicate the seventh day Sabbath of the Jew. 1689 R. Russell Let. 16 Mar. (1826) 192 Accidents may abdicate your opinion. 1705 E. H. Suspiria Divina ci. 114 That so Neglecting, yea rejecting and renouncing, abdicating and totally abnegating them [sc. pleasures]. 1772 S. Whyte Shamrock 10 He bade me preach: I bow'd, assented, and submissive chose To abdicate the Lyre, and drudge in Prose. 1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar II. 272 When the church abdicates its liberty, it loses its moral virtuality. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost iii. 87 It is not content with abdicating the powers of reason. 1999 New Yorker 5 July 49/2 La Bute's great strength..is to force the audience to take a position rather than to abdicate thought for the sake of fun. d. transitive. To vacate or leave (a place). ΚΠ 1691 Wit for Money: or, Poet Stutter 27 This, with abdicating the Coffee-house, and exchanging their Company, for the Society of the more sober and tractable Gentlemen of the Country and City, quasht the business. 1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. vi. 191 The Indians abdicated the ancient Alachua town on the borders of the savanna, and built here, calling the new town Cuscowilla; their reasons for removing their habitation were on account of its unhealthiness. 1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge II. xix. 238 Those who do not remove out of their tenements appear to abdicate nearly every room in them; for what is called the general ‘house-cleaning’ has commenced. 1866 ‘B. Gray’ Out of Town i. 5 Some night, when the children cry so as to keep me awake, I will abdicate my own room, and essay a lodging out-of-doors. 1907 Punch 10 Apr. 267/3 One day he broke it to me how He'd had an unexpected ‘call’ To abdicate the Servants' Hall. 1968 P. Levine Not This Pig 18 He speaks only when his family abdicates the parlour. 2003 Record (Stockton, Calif.) (Nexis) 14 May I'm not ready to abdicate this building for a more-expensive one. †e. transitive. Insurance. To surrender to an underwriter the right of ownership of (goods insured). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 36 The Owners of such Gold, Silver, or Pearls, cannot renounce or abdicate them to the Underwriters. 1850 S. Meredith tr. B. M. Emerigon Treat. Insurances xvii. 665 The object of insurance is to procure to the assured indemnity for the losses and damages that he suffers; but to obtain this indemnity, it is not necessary, according to the law of nations, that the assured should abdicate his property in the subject. 4. transitive. To depose (a person) from office or authority; esp. to remove (a monarch) from the throne. rare after 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] outOE deposec1300 remuec1325 to put out1344 to set downc1369 deprivec1374 outputa1382 removea1382 to throw outa1382 to put downc1384 privea1387 to set adowna1387 to put out of ——?a1400 amovec1425 disappoint1434 unmakec1475 dismiss1477 dispoint1483 voidc1503 to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546 relieve1549 cass1550 displace1553 unauthorize1554 to wring out1560 seclude1572 eject1576 dispost1577 decass1579 overboard1585 cast1587 sequester1587 to put to grass1589 cashier1592 discompose1599 abdicate1610 unseat1611 dismount1612 disoffice1627 to take off1642 unchair1645 destitute1653 lift1659 resign1674 quietus1688 superannuate1692 derange1796 shelve1812 shelf1819 Stellenbosch1900 defenestrate1917 axe1922 retire1961 1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. xiv. 271 He telleth vs of the Emperours going to Rome, and of the Romans yeelding vnto him, and abdicating Pope Gregory, because he refused to appeare before the Emperour. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 168 The Turkes abdicated Cornutus the next heire from the Empire. 1693 J. Dryden Examen Poeticum Ded. sig. A5 Julius Scaliger wou'd needs turn down Homer, and Abdicate him after the possession of Three Thousand Years. 1705 D. Defoe Consolidator 81 A Man may Abdicate, drive away, and Dethrone his Prince. 1753 Parl. Hist. Eng. IX. 430 The greater Part of the Estates of that Kingdom were necessitated, after mature Deliberation, to abdicate him, and to elect Frederick, Prince Elector Palatine, for their king. 1996 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 16/1 Britain would either have become a republic or abdicated him in his absence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1532
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