To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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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.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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Taken.
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Taken.
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To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
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To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by fo…
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To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
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The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.
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To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…
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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
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Taken.
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One who supplants.
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One who supplants.
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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of…
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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of…
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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
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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…
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