v (transitive|obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. (defdate|Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 19th century.)
v (transitive|reflexive|obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of. (defdate|First attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.)
v (transitive|obsolete) To depose. (defdate|Attested from the early 17th century until the late 18th century.)
v (transitive|obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard. (defdate|Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.)
v (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdrawdefinitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. (defdate|First attested in the mid 17th century.)
v (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. (defdate|First attested in the early 18th century.)