2. Verb. The Abdicated. Grand Rapids, MI. ¹
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Definition of Abdicated
1. abdicate [v] - See also: abdicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abdicated
Literary usage of Abdicated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Nothing, of course, prevents the Municipal Law of a State from granting the same
privileges to a foreign deposed or abdicated monarch as to a foreign ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and some ships lay ready in the harbour of Ravenna, to transport the abdicated
monarch to the dominions of his infant nephew, the emperor of the East. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"There are 381 very slight foundation, and many of them were Child Jesus, of St.
Joseph, of Mercy, the School her country, she abdicated in 1919 and entered ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"He is said to have been accompanied by the celebrated Emperor Chandragupta, who
had abdicated the throne and adopted the life of a hermit. ..."
5. History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the by Alphonse de Lamartine (1848)
"On his return from Varennes, the king should have abdicated. The Revolution would
have adopted his son, and have educated him in its own image. ..."
6. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"Somers proposes and supports the resolution that James had abdicated, and that
the throne was vacant. The Prince's " Declaration," which came out soon after ..."
7. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1876)
"... position of Republican Dictator, or abdicated. ... abdicated ..."
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