Abdicate :: 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 :: Abdicate (v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc..
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To reject; to cast off.
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. i.) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity..
Abdication :: 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 :: Abdicative (a.) Causing, or implying, abdication..
Abditive :: Abditive (a.) Having the quality of hiding.
Abditory :: Abditory (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.
Abdomen :: 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 :: Abdomen (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda..
Abdominal :: Abdominal (a.) Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity..
Abdominal :: Abdominal (a.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes..
Abdominal :: Abdominal (n.) A fish of the group Abdominales.
Abdominales :: 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 :: Abdominalia (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.