defined
- Abdication
- n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
- Poor Isabella’s Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance ’twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she’ll be no royal riddle — Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
- J.G.