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abdicated, ppl. a.|ˈæbdɪkeɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Formally renounced, resigned, or given up. Used especially of a possession, right, or function.
1688Ld. Somers Speech, It is an entire alienation of the thing abdicated, and so stands in opposition to dicare. 1689Apol. Fail. Walker's Acc. 25 A Head Abdicated of Reason and Five Senses. 1713Addison To Sir Godf. Kneller Old Saturn too, with up-cast eyes, Beheld his abdicated skies. 1728G. Carleton Mem. Eng. Officer 233 The Siege thus abdicated (if I may use a modern Phrase). 1852Cockburn Life of Jeffrey I. 26 Some new obstacle to my belief, which might return me to my abdicated opinion.
2. Deposed from an office, function, or dignity. In 17th c. including deposition by others (see abdicate 2), but now always, self-deposed, having formally laid down or divested himself of a dignity or trust. (See the ambiguity of its application to James II.)
1691New Disc. Old Intreague xviii. 15. So found too late their abdicated James. 1714Swift State of Affairs Wks. II. i. 215 Those who wish to see the son of the abdicated prince upon the throne. 1781Gibbon D. & F. II. xli. 531 The abdicated monarch fled from the justice of his country. 1825Southey in Q. Rev. XXXII. 368 That strange personage, Christina, the abdicated Queen of Scotland. 1866Howell Venetian Life xx. 349 The abdicated Emperor of Austria. |