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Abdicate vs Pristine - What's the difference?

abdicate | pristine |

As a verb abdicate

is (obsolete) to disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

As an adjective pristine is

unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied or pristine can be relating to sawfishes of the family pristidae.

abdicate

English

Verb

(abdicat)
  • (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.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • 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.
    • Note:'' The word ''abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The understanding abdicates its functions.
  • To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • Though a king may abdicate' for his own person, he cannot ' abdicate for the monarchy.

    Synonyms

    * give up, relinquish, renounce, quit, vacate, surrender, relent * forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, relent * forsake, give up * (relinquish or renounce a high office or sovereignty) relinquish, renounce, resign, quit, give up, vacate, relent

    Derived terms

    * abdicable * abdicant * abdicator

    Related terms

    * abdication

    References

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    pristine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pristin.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
  • Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
  • * 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
    • This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
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