English-Thai Dictionary

abdicate

VI สละราชสมบัติ  สละ ราชบัลลังก์  สละ อำนาจ  ถอนตัว (จาก อำนาจ  ตำแหน่ง  สิทธิ์  renounce relinguish sa-la-rad-som-bad

 

abdicate

VT VI ละเลย หน้าที่  abandon surrender la-lei-na-ti

 

abdicate

VT ทำให้ สละราชสมบัติ  ทำให้ สละ ราชบัลลังก์  ทำให้ สละ อำนาจ  ทำให้ ถอนตัว (จาก อำนาจ  ตำแหน่ง  สิทธิ์  tam-hai-sa-la-rad-som-bad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABDICATE

v.t.[L. abdica; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust. ] 1. In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon.
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.
4. To reject; to renounce; to abandon as a right.
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.

 

ABDICATE

v.i.To renounce; to abandon; to cast off; to relinquish, as a right, power, or trust. Though a King may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

 

ABDICATED

pp. Renounced; relinquished without a formal resignation; abandoned.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ABDICATE

Ab "di *cate, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abdicated; p.pr. & vb. n. Abdicating. ]Etym: [L. abdicatus, p.p. 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.

 

Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II., to abandon without a formal surrender. The cross-bearers abdicated their service. Gibbon.

 

2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

 

3. To reject; to cast off. [Obs. ] Bp. Hall.

 

4. (Civil Law )

 

Defn: To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

 

Syn. -- To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon; resign; renounce; desert. -- To Abdicate, Resign. Abdicate commonly expresses the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the government. Resign is applied to the act of any person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk resigns. The expression, "The king resigned his crown, " sometimes occurs in our later literature, implying that he held it from his people. -- There are other senses of resign which are not here brought into view.

 

ABDICATE

ABDICATE Ab "di *cate, v.i.

 

Defn: 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. Burke.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

abdicate

ab di cate |ˈabdiˌkāt ˈæbdəˌkeɪt | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a monarch ) renounce one's throne: in 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated as German emperor | [ with obj. ] : Ferdinand abdicated the throne in favor of the emperor's brother. • [ with obj. ] fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty ): the government was accused of abdicating its responsibility | [ no obj. ] : the secretary of state should not abdicate from leadership on educational issues. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin abdicat- ‘renounced, ’ from the verb abdicare, from ab- ‘away, from ’ + dicare ‘declare. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

abdicate

abdicate |ˈabdɪkeɪt | ▶verb 1 [ no obj. ] (of a monarch ) renounce one's throne: in 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated as German emperor | [ with obj. ] : Ferdinand abdicated the throne in favour of the emperor's brother. 2 [ with obj. ] fail to fulfil or undertake (a responsibility or duty ): the government was accused of abdicating its responsibility. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin abdicat- ‘renounced ’, from the verb abdicare, from ab- ‘away, from ’ + dicare ‘declare ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

abdicate

abdicate verb 1 the king abdicated in 1936: resign, retire, stand down, step down, bow out, renounce the throne; archaic demit. ANTONYMS be crowned. 2 Ferdinand abdicated the throne: resign from, relinquish, renounce, give up, surrender, vacate, cede; Law disclaim; formal abjure. ANTONYMS accede to. 3 the state abdicated all responsibility for their welfare: disown, reject, renounce, give up, refuse, relinquish, repudiate, abandon, turn one's back on, wash one's hands of; forgo, waive; formal abjure; literary forsake. ANTONYMS accept, take on.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

abdicate

abdicate verb 1 in 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in favour of George VI: resign, retire, quit, stand down, step down, bow out, renounce the throne; archaic demit. ANTONYMS be crowned. 2 Napoleon compelled Ferdinand to abdicate the throne: resign from, relinquish, renounce, give up, hand over, turn over, deliver up, surrender, vacate, forswear, abjure, cede; Law disclaim. ANTONYMS accede to. 3 the state virtually abdicated all responsibility for their welfare: disown, turn down, spurn, reject, renounce, give up, avoid, refuse, abnegate, relinquish, abjure, repudiate, waive, yield, forgo, abandon, surrender, deliver up, disgorge, cast aside, drop, turn one's back on, wash one's hands of; informal shirk; archaic forsake. ANTONYMS accept, take on.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

abdicate

ab di cate /ǽbdɪkèɪt /動詞 他動詞 1 〈王 女王が 〉〈王位 〉を放棄する .2 ｟かたく ｠〈責任 権利など 〉を放棄する ; 〈受賞など 〉を辞退する (give up ).自動詞 1 〈王 女王が 〉 «…から » 退位する (step down ) «from » .2 (受賞などを )辞退する .à b di c á tion 名詞 U C (王位などからの )退位 ; ｟かたく ｠(権力 責任などの )放棄 .