Capitulate vs Abdicate - What's the difference?
capitulate | abdicate |
(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
* Heylin
To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.
(obsolete) To depose.
(obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
To surrender, renounce 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; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
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To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
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As verbs the difference between capitulate and abdicate
is that capitulate is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate while abdicate is to disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.capitulate
English
Verb
(capitulat)- there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .
Synonyms
* wave the white flagabdicate
English
Verb
(abdicat)- (Bishop Hall)
- Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
- The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
- He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
- The understanding abdicates its functions.
- Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.