| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| abdicate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ab·di·cate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   b d -k t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ab·di·cat·ed, ab·di·cat·ing, ab·di·cates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin abdicre, abdict-, to disclaim : ab-, away; see ab–1 + dicre, to proclaim; see deik- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | abdi·ca·ble (-k -bl) —ADJECTIVE
abdi·cation —NOUN
abdi·cator —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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