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abdication|æbdɪˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. abdicātiōn-em, n. of action, from abdĭcāre: see abdicate and -ion1.]
The act of abdicating, in various senses of vb.
1. The action of formally renouncing, disowning, or casting off. Now only applied to the disowning of a son in Roman Law.
1552R. Huloet Abcedarium, Abdication, as when the father doth wyllyngly exclude the sonne from his inheritaunce, Abdicatio. 1615Bp. Hall Contemp. iii. 66 A just abdication from thy favour and protection, and an interminable seisure by satan. 1651Hobbes Gov. & Soc. ix. §7. 139 A son also is freed from subjection in the same manner as a subject and servant are. For emancipation is the same thing with manumission, and abdication with banishment.
†2. Deposition from sovereignty. Obs.
1660R. Coke Elem. of Power & Subj. 57 Who..had they been able, would have advanced the power of the Senate to the abdication of Cæsars.
3. Resignation, surrender, renunciation (generally). Const. of.
1618Bp. Hall Righteous Mammon 719 Both in preparation of mind, and (when need is) in a charitable abdication, hearken to the duties which God layes upon you. 1668J. Howe Blessedness of the Righteous (Wks. 1834) 261/2 Which abdication of the earth, as none of their country. 1695Anc. Const. Eng. 61 The doing of any act that is utterly inconsistent with the being or end of the thing for which it is ordained, is as true a renouncing, or abdication of that thing as if it were made in express words. 1786Burke Articles agt. Hastings Wks. XII. 323 He recommends an entire abdication for ever,..of all power and authority. 1848Lytton Harold iv. i. 78 He implored the Earl to aid his abdication of the throne.
4. esp. Resignation or abandonment, either formal or virtual, of sovereignty or other high trust.
‘It is used when there is only an implicit Renunciation, as when a Person does Actions that are altogether inconsistent with his Trust.’ Bailey 1721.
1688in Somers's Tracts I. 441 They pitched upon Dereliction or Abdication, not that either of these were commensurate to the state of the business. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil (1840) i. i. 14 The abdication and expulsion of the Devil and his angels. 1781Gibbon Decl. & Fall II. 2 After the defeat and abdication of Licinius, his victorious rival proceeded to lay the foundations of a city. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Abdication, in general, is where a magistrate or person in office, renounces and gives up the same before the term of service is expired. 1843Lytton Last of Barons iii. v. 173 What suicide is to a man, abdication is to a king.
5. Comm. Law. Formal renunciation or relinquishment of the ownership of goods by an insurer to the underwriters; abandonment.
1755N. Magens Ess. Insur. II. 38 A Ship is unfit to prosecute her Voyage, when an Abdication is made before the justice and Leave given to discharge her. |