English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Abdicate
(v. t.)
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.
Abdicate
(v. t.)
To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a
trust, duty, right, etc.
Abdicate
(v. t.)
To reject; to cast off.
Abdicate
(v. t.)
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his
child; to disown; to disinherit.
Abdicate
(v. i.)
To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high
office or dignity.
Abdicated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Abdicate
Abdicating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Abdicate
Abdication
(n.)
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
(a.)
Causing, or implying, abdication.
Abdicator
(n.)
One who abdicates.
Abditive
(a.)
Having the quality of hiding.
Abditory
(n.)
A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.
Abdomen
(n.)
The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and
the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the
peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In
man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the
commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic
cavity.
Abdomen
(n.)
The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in
insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
Abdominal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the
abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.
Abdominal
(a.)
Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as,
abdominal fishes.
Abdominal
(n.)
A fish of the group Abdominales.
Abdominales
(pl. )
of Abdominal
Abdominales
(n. pl.)
A group including the greater part of fresh-water
fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen
behind the pectorals.
Abdominalia
(n. pl.)
A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.