Crossword clues for arrogate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrogate \Ar"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arrogated; p. pr. & vb. n. Arrogating.] [L. arrogatus, p. p. of adrogare, arrogare, to ask, appropriate to one's self; ad + rogare to ask. See Rogation.] 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.
He arrogated to himself the right of deciding
dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin arrogatus, past participle of arrogare "to claim for oneself" (see arrogance). Related: Arrogated; arrogating.
Wiktionary
vb. (lb en transitive) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
WordNet
v. demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" [syn: claim, lay claim] [ant: forfeit]
make undue claims to having [syn: assign]
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take over]
Usage examples of "arrogate".
Shakespeare who scorn the theatre and arrogate to themselves in the library, often with some justification, a greater capacity for apprehending and appreciating Shakespeare than is at the command of the ordinary playgoer or actor.
R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one, who differed from him.
Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson.
He had arrogated nothing unto himself, asked for nothing, demanded nothing in virtue of his protecting powers over her.
For what has been given in common for the use of all, you have arrogated to yourself.
When he was gone, Arbaces, drawing his seat nearer to the fair Neapolitan’s, said in those bland and subdued tones, in which he knew so well how to veil the mingled art and fierceness of his character: ‘Think not, my sweet pupil, if so I may call you, that I wish to shackle that liberty you adorn while you assume: but which, if not greater, as you rightly observe, than that possessed by the Roman women, must at least be accompanied by great circumspection, when arrogated by one unmarried.
The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or velaria) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson.
It had been a singular privilege, arrogated by the people of Rome, to confer upon their citizens the order of knighthood.
He arrogated their powers to himself--struggled to be, of his own unaided might, stronger than death, more powerful than the grave.
He had arrogated unto himself the right to take this innocent creature’s life.
For he who arrogates the liberty of destroying himself, were he possessed of the power, might also be his own creator.
A society may call itself an Entomological Society, but the man who arrogates such a broad title as that to himself, in the present state of science, is a pretender, sir, a dilettante, an impostor!
Each commune arrogates to itself the right of suspending or preventing the execution of the simplest and most urgent orders.
Not poets alone, nor artists, nor that superior order of mind which arrogates to itself all refinement, feel this, but dogs and all men.
This book praises me by terming my writing important but it arrogates to itself the role of arbiter of viewpoint and proper concern.