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Definition of Arrogate
1. Verb. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to. "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Call For, Quest, Request
Related verbs: Claim, Take
Specialized synonyms: Pretend, Requisition, Assign
Derivative terms: Arrogator, Claim, Claimant
Antonyms: Forfeit
2. Verb. Make undue claims to having.
3. Verb. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession. "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
Generic synonyms: Take
Specialized synonyms: Annex, Appropriate, Capture, Conquer, Seize, Preoccupy, Hijack, Raid
Derivative terms: Arrogation, Arrogator, Assumption, Takeover, Usurpation, Usurper
Definition of Arrogate
1. v. t. To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.
Definition of Arrogate
1. Verb. (transitive) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arrogate
1. to claim or take without right [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrogate
Literary usage of Arrogate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"As though it ought to be tolerated for a man to arrogate the office of a teacher
in the Church before he is a member of it. XXX. At length they object, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... on the country that Henry VIII had to make a personal attack on the dead saint
before he could hope to arrogate himself full ecclesiastical authority. ..."
3. Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of [European] History by Grace Reade Robinson, James Harvey Robinson (1899)
"who loved despotism should have desired to arrogate to themselves, in the name
of the Council of Your Majesty, the right arbitrarily to impose upon the ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"We believe that she may at present arrogate that merit. The Sorbonne ha« not,
that we have heard, petitioned the Emperor not to admit Protestants into his ..."
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