v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abdicated p. pr. & vb. n. Abdicating. ] [ L. abdicatus, p. p. of abdicare; ab + dicare to proclaim, akin to dicere to say. See Diction. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II., to abandon without a formal surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cross-bearers abdicated their service. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reject; to cast off. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon; resign; renounce; desert. -- To Abdicate, Resign. Abdicate commonly expresses the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the government. Resign is applied to the act of any person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk resigns. The expression, “The king resigned his crown, ” sometimes occurs in our later literature, implying that he held it from his people. -- There are other senses of resign which are not here brought into view. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. aberuncare, for aberruncare. See Averruncate. ] To weed out. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abjudicatus, p. p. of abjudicare; ab + judicare. See Judge, and cf. Abjudge. ] To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Caterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Cates. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjudicated p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudicating [ L. adjudicatus, p. p. of adjudicare. See Adjudge. ] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal. ] 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as “counsel, ” “counselor, ” or “barrister.” In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as “counsel” at the common law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Christ, considered as an intercessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. --
Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. --
Judge advocate. See under Judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Advocated p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating ] [ See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow. ] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. [ 1913 Webster ]

To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as advocate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or duty of an advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. affricatus, p. p. of affricare to rub against; af- = ad- + fricare to rub. ] (Phon.) A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow. ] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To localize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Altercated; p. pr. & vb. n. Altercating. ] [ L. altercatus, p. p. of altercare, altercari, fr. alter another. See Alter. ] To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. amplificatus, p. p. of amplificare. ] To amplify. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To append. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. applicatus, p. p. of applicare. See Apply. ] Applied or put to some use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. --
Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To apply. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The act of faith is applicated to the object. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. apricatus, p. p. of apricare, fr. apricus exposed to the sun, fr. aperire to uncover, open. ] To bask in the sun. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arsenicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Arsenicating. ] To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. auspicatus, p. p. of auspicari to take auspices, fr. auspex a bird seer, an augur, a contr. of avispex; avis bird + specere, spicere, to view. See Aviary, Spy. ] Auspicious. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To foreshow; to foretoken. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. [ 1913 Webster ]

They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Authenticated p. pr. & vb. n. Authenticating (&unr_;). ] [ Cf. LL. authenticare. ] 1. To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. established or certified as genuine.
Syn. -- attested, documented. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. averruncare to avert; a, ab, off + verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Cf. Aberuncate. ] 1. To avert; to ward off. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To root up. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. avocatus, p. p. of avocare; a, ab + vocare to call. Cf. Avoke, and see Vocal, a. ] To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. baccatus, fr. L. bacca berry. ] (Bot.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having many berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Set or adorned with pearls. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beatify. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To divide into two branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + furcate. ] 1. Two-pronged; forked. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. divided into or made up of two parts. socially bifurcated populations
Syn. -- chesty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + plicate. ] Twice folded together. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + saccate. ] (Bot.) Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min. Chem.) A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + sulcate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having two grooves or furrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Cloven; said of a foot or hoof. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + silicate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ L. bracatus wearing breeches, fr. bracae breeches. ] (Zool.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brocatelle, fr. It. brocatello: cf. Sp. brocatel. See Brocade. ] 1. A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Brocatel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. canonucatus canonical: cf. F. canonicat. ] The office of a canon; a canonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carucata, carrucata. See Carucage. ] A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Food. [ Obs. ] See Cates. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Catechise. ] Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a catechetical manner; by question and answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of the tannic acids (C15H14O6), extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, catechinic acid, cyanidol, and catechuin. It is a flavonoid found generally in higher woody plants, and is used in dyeing and tanning. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ LL. catechizatio. ] The act of catechising. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Catechised p. pr. & vb. n. Catechising. ] [ L. catechizare, Gr. &unr_;, equiv. to &unr_; to resound, sound a thing into one's ears, impress it upon one by word of mouth; &unr_; + &unr_; to sound, &unr_; a sound. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who catechises. [ 1913 Webster ]