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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.
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vb. (present participle of arrogate English)
Usage examples of "arrogating".
And if there were nothing else that bewrayed their madness, yet that very arrogating such inspiration to themselves is argument enough.
For he was a mere boy, though he reclined in a plundered shawl of gold-embroidered purple, and wore on his brow a gold chaplet arrogating to royal rank.
And from your habit of promoting your old prison mates, and of arrogating unrighteous authority to yourself!
The former, having failed to attract men by the devices described, take refuge behind the sour grapes doctrine that they have never tried, and the latter, having fallen victims, sooth their egoism by arrogating the whole agency to themselves, thus giving it a specious appearance of the volitional, and even of the, audacious.
Sir Oldgram, for such was he titled in the barbarous land whence he originated, invented what he pompously called the Law of Gravity, thereby arrogating to himself, before his time and without reason, an honor which is properly mine.
After it had confirmed its autonomy it sent out a series of instructions to the internal databuses, arrogating their handling procedures, shutting down the data flow.