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Abdicable
Abdicable Ab"di*ca*ble, a.
Capable of being abdicated.
Abdicant
Abdicant Ab"di*cant, a. [L. abdicans, p. pr. of abdicare.]
Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
Monks abdicant of their orders. --Whitlock.
Abdicant
Abdicant Ab"di*cant, n.
One who abdicates. --Smart.
AbdicateAbdicate Ab"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abdicating.] [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) 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.
Usage: 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.
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.
AbdicatedAbdicate Ab"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abdicating.] [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) 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.
Usage: 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. AbdicatingAbdicate Ab"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abdicating.] [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) 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.
Usage: 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. Abdication
Abdication Ab`di*ca"tion, n. [L. abdicatio: cf. F.
abdication.]
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office,
dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary
renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the
throne, government, power, authority.
Abdicative
Abdicative Ab"di*ca*tive, a. [L. abdicativus.]
Causing, or implying, abdication. [R.] --Bailey.
Abdicator
Abdicator Ab"di*ca`tor, n.
One who abdicates.
Meaning of Abdic from wikipedia
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Fikret Abdić (born 29
September 1939), also
known as Babo, is a
Bosnian politician and
businessman who
first rose to
prominence in the 1980s for his role...
- fields. It was
proclaimed as a
result of
secessionist politics by
Fikret Abdić against the
central government of
Alija Izetbegović
during the
Bosnian War...
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autonomous zone of the
Autonomous Province of
Western Bosnia, its
leader Fikret Abdić and his
Serbian backers the Army of the
Republic of Serb
Krajina (SVK),...
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Sarajevo and the
Autonomous Province of
Western Bosnia loyal to
Fikret Abdić in
Velika Kladuša from 1993 to 1995 in the
region of the
western Bosnia...
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picture of Dr.
Kamal Abdic, Megan's psychiatrist, whom
Rachel identifies as the man she saw
kissing Megan. As a result,
Abdic is
questioned as a suspect...
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Zapadne Bosne, NOZB) was a
paramilitary unit
founded and led by
Fikret Abdić that
fought in the Intra-Bosnian
Muslim War
during the
Bosnian War. It served...
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Republic of
Serbian Krajina and
Bosnian Muslim dissenters led by
Fikret Abdić during the 1992–95
Bosnian War. The
siege lasted for
three years, from June...
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Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 7
September 1967) is a
Bosnian politician. She is the
president of the
Labour Party of
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
founded in...
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warned Abdić that ‘[t]he
whole of
Bosnia will burn if I
start to ‘speak’’. Mladić then
threatened that the
Bosnian leadership,
which included Abdić, caused...
- the
Agrokomerc Affair.
During the war in
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Fikret Abdić, the
chief executive officer of the company, used his
wealth and political...
