2. Adjective. claimed falsely ¹
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Definition of Arrogated
1. arrogate [v] - See also: arrogate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrogated
Literary usage of Arrogated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars, Emperor of the East Justinian (1917)
"If the arrogated son was disinherited or was emancipated without good reason
before puberty, the arrogated son received back all his own property, ..."
2. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"and the modern Palatinate, was considered as the cradle of the empire, and who
seem to have arrogated some superiority over the rest, ..."
3. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"And these combats against the arrogated authority of the British Legislature
paved the way for burying in the same grave with it the forfeited authority of ..."
4. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"France, amidst all her past success, declined proportionably in the opinion of
Europe, and has never since arrogated the same rank, as a Naval Power. ..."
5. Party Government in the United States of America by William Milligan Sloane (1914)
"Its ability—Senators as party managers —Powers of the Senate, constitutional and
arrogated—It expresses minority power — Effect on party strife — "Pocket ..."
6. The Works of William Robertson: To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life by William Robertson (1851)
"... and a monarch who still arrogated the name of Most BOOK Christian : that, in
truth, a war against the French • —'•— king and the sultan ought to be ..."
7. The History of Hindostan: Its Arts, and Its Sciences, as Connected with the by Thomas Maurice (1795)
"... and periodical Returns afford strong Evidence against their arrogated Antiquity,
as well as in part overthrow the Arguments advanced by M. BAILLI to ..."
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