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Usurp

Usurp (usurp)
v. t.(?)
U*surp"
[imp. *** p. p. Usurped (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Usurping.] [L. usurpare, usurpatum, to make use of, enjoy, get possession of, usurp] the first part of usurpare is akin to
  1. To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.

    Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak.

    Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. Burke.

    * Usurp is applied to seizure and use of office, functions, powers, rights, etc.; it is not applied to common dispossession of private property.

    Syn. -- To arrogate; assume; appropriate.

Usurp

Usurp (usurp)
v. i.
U*surp"
  1. To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

    The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped. Evelyn.

    And now the Spirits of the Mind
    Are busy with poor Peter Bell;
    Upon the rights of visual sense
    Usurping, with a prevalence
    More terrible than magic spell.     Wordsworth.













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