Crossword-Solution: ABDICATING 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And in consequence I might keep on abdicating from now to the crack of doom, and the only course left open to him would be to treat me as an impostor." She replied, with emphasis, "I think your cousin is a beast!" "Ah, but the madman is in love," he pleaded.

Well does a brilliant modern writer declare that, "among the multitude of strong men in modern times abdicating their reason at the command of their prejudices, Joseph Scaliger is perhaps the most striking example." Early in the following century Sir Walter Raleigh, in his History of the World (1603-1616), pointed out the danger of adhering to the old system.

Descending from the palace by a staircase, called, I thought, the Giant’s—I had some imaginary recollection of an old man abdicating, coming, more slowly and more feebly, down it, when he heard the bell, proclaiming his successor—I glided off, in one of the dark boats, until we came to an old arsenal guarded by four marble lions.

Victor., who has treated the character of Diocletian with good sense, though in bad Latin.] It was in the twenty first year of his reign that Diocletian executed his memorable resolution of abdicating the empire; an action more naturally to have been expected from the elder or the younger Antoninus, than from a prince who had never practised the lessons of philosophy either in the attainment or in the use of supreme power.

Even in the splendor of the Roman triumph, Diocletian had meditated his design of abdicating the government.