ARROGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrogate mean? 

• ARROGATE (verb)
  The verb ARROGATE has 3 senses:

1. demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

2. make undue claims to having

3. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

  Familiarity information: ARROGATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARROGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they arrogate    ... he / she / it arrogates   
Past simple: arrogated   
Past participle: arrogated   
-ing form: arrogating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

arrogate; claim; lay claim

Context example:

Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident

Hypernyms (to "arrogate" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Verb group:

claim; take (lay claim to; as of an idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrogate"):

pretend (put forward a claim and assert right or possession of)

requisition (demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service)

arrogate; assign (make undue claims to having)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

arrogator (a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make undue claims to having

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

arrogate; assign

Hypernyms (to "arrogate" is one way to...):

arrogate; claim; lay claim (demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

arrogator (a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

arrogate; assume; seize; take over; usurp

Context example:

She seized control of the throne after her husband died

Hypernyms (to "arrogate" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrogate"):

annex (take (territory) as if by conquest)

appropriate; capture; conquer; seize (take possession of by force, as after an invasion)

preoccupy (occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance)

hijack (seize control of)

raid (take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

arrogation (seizure by the government)

arrogator (a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess)

 Context examples 

Oh no! Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity. I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)