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..

Abdicated :: Abdicated (imp. & p. p.) of Abdicat.

Abdicating :: Abdicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abdicat.

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..

Abdicator :: Abdicator (n.) One who abdicates.

Aberuncate :: Aberuncate (v. t.) To weed out.

Aberuncator :: Aberuncator (n.) A weeding machine.

Abjudicate :: Abjudicate (v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge..

Abjudication :: Abjudication (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.

Acatalectic :: Acatalectic (a.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse..

Acatalectic :: Acatalectic (n.) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..

Acataleptic :: Acataleptic (a.) Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

Acater :: Acater (n.) See Caterer.

Acates :: Acates (n. pl.) See Cates.

Acciaccatura :: Acciaccatura (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura..

Acetification :: Acetification (n.) The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar..

Acidification :: Acidification (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid..

Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..

Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. i.) To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case..

Adjudicated :: Adjudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Adjudicat.

Adjudicating :: Adjudicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudicat.

Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.

Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

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