abdicate

• And the King was ready to abdicate, and the Church was ready to make away with its possessions: I know that. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
• It was sufficient for the people to know that both father and son had been compelled to abdicate, and that they no longer were kings of Spain, and that the brother of the French Emperor occupied the vacant throne, which the Inquisition had associated, in their superstition, with the throne of God itself. —  Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
• They compelled Napoleon to abdicate, and restored the Bourbon line. —  Heroes of Modern Europe
• This fixed aversion was owing to the determined dislike of the Queen to abdicate, as it was her resolution, if there were no other person to be employed, never to make Lord Lovat an instrument of her affairs Lovat, therefore, now clearly perceived that, during the life of the Queen and of Lord Middleton, he must look for nothing favourable from the Court of St. Germains. That of Versailles, although, by his account, decidedly friendly to his release, refused to support those whom the Chevalier had renounced. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• All the other magistrates were obliged to abdicate, and no exception was made even in favor of the Tribunes. —  A Smaller History of Rome

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