arrogate

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İngilizce - İngilizce
To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right
to take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds
{v} to claim unjustly, assume, take
{f} demand without right; seize unjustly; attribute unjustly
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"
make undue claims to having
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"
disapproval If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so. The assembly arrogated to itself the right to make changes He arrogated the privilege to himself alone. arrogate (to yourself) sth to claim that you have a particular right, position etc, without having the legal right to it (past participle of arrogare, from ad- + rogare )
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
arrogated
Simple past tense and past participle of arrogate
arrogation
To unjustly assume rights or privilege to something of which one does not have rights for privilege to

The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer.

arrogated
claimed falsely
arrogated
past of arrogate
arrogates
third-person singular of arrogate
arrogating
present participle of arrogate
arrogation
Adoption of a person of full age
arrogation
seizure by the government
arrogation
{i} taking of something unjustly
arrogation
The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to
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