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arrogate(dictionary)

arrogate (iou)



arrogate verb trans. M16.
[Latin arrogat- pa. ppl stem of arrogare claim for oneself, from ad AR- + rogare ask: see -ATE3 and cf. ADROGATE.]
Appropriate, assume, or claim (to oneself) unduly or without justification. M16.
Milton Will arrogate Dominion undeserv'd Over his brethren. C. Stead He arrogated every honor to himself, he went out of his way to push into official circles. H. Macmillan The illegal but effective authority which the Assembly of the United Nations seemed now to have arrogated to itself.
Ascribe or attribute to (a person or thing) without just reason. E17.
Coleridge To antiquity we arrogate many things, to ourselves nothing.
Roman Law. = ADROGATE. Only in M17.
arro'gation noun (a) Roman Law = ADROGATION; (b) the action of claiming and assuming without just reason; an unwarrantable assumption: L16.