Abdicate

·vt To Reject; to cast off.

II. Abdicate ·vi To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

III. Abdicate ·vt To Renounce; to Relinquish;

— said of authority, a trust, duty, right, ·etc.

IV. Abdicate ·vt To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to Disown; to Disinherit.

V. Abdicate ·vt 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.