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and F., lxvii. He [Charles II.] was utterly without ambition. He detested busine , and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., i. 2. To discard; cast away; take leave of: as, to abdicate one's mental faculties.-3. In civil law , to disclaim and expel from a family, as a child; disinherit during lifetime: with a personal subject, as father , parent . The father will disinherit or abdicate his child, quite cashier him.