different between usurp vs arrogate

English

Etymology

From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ?s?rp?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ju?s?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju??z??p/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p

Verb

usurp (third-person singular simple present usurps, present participle usurping, simple past and past participle usurped)

1. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
2. To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
3. To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.
4. (obsolete) To make use of.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 149:

     " […] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […] "

Related terms

• usurpation
• usurper

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin arrog?tus, perfect passive participle of adrog?, arrog? (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rog? (“ask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ???e?t/

Verb

arrogate (third-person singular simple present arrogates, present participle arrogating, simple past and past participle arrogated)

1. (transitive, rare) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

   Synonyms: commandeer, expropriate, usurp

   Antonyms: abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Related terms

• arrogance
• arrogant
• arrogation

Translations

Further reading

• arrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arrogate at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Italian

Verb

arrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of arrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of arrogare
3. feminine plural of arrogato

Latin

Verb

arrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of arrog?