Crossword clues for arrogated
arrogated
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.
Wiktionary
claimed falsely v
(en-past of: arrogate)
WordNet
adj. taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states" [syn: assumed]
Usage examples of "arrogated".
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.