Abdicate

First attested in 1541.
From Latin abdicÄtus ("renounced"), perfect passive participle of abdicÅ ("renounce, reject, disclaim"), formed from ab ("away") + dicÅ ("proclaim, dedicate, declare"), akin to dÄ«cÅ ("say").

Full definition of abdicate

(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. Attested from the mid 16^th century until the early 19^th century.
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of. First attested from the mid 16^th century until the late 17^th century.
(transitive, obsolete) To depose. Attested from the early 17^th century until the late 18^th century.
(transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard. Attested from the mid 16^th century until the late 17^th century.
(transitive) To surrender, renounce 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; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. First attested in the mid 17^th century.Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.

unknown date Edward Gibbon:The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
unknown date Edmund Burke:He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
unknown date James Anthony Froude:The understanding abdicates its functions.

(intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. First attested in the early 18^th century.

unknown date Edmund Burke:Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

(surrender, renounce, or relinquish) give up, relinquish, renounce, quit, vacate, surrender, relent
(reject; cast off) forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, relent
(disclaim and expel from family; disown; disinherit) forsake, give up
(relinquish or renounce a high office or sovereignty) relinquish, renounce, resign, quit, give up, vacate, relent