arrogate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AR'ROGATE, verb transitive [Latin arrogo, of ad and rogo.] To assume, demand or challenge more than is proper; to make undue claims, from vanity or false pretensions to right or merit; as, the Pope arrogated dominion over kings.
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