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uˈsurped, ppl. a.
[f. usurp v. + -ed1.]
1. Seized, obtained, held, etc., by usurpation or force; possessed unjustly or illegally; arrogated wrongfully.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxi. (Eugenia) 135 Sen vsurpyt pouste has mad me ȝoure lady be. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 158 No vengable herte shal..Extort power nor fals usurpyd myhte. 1477Rolls of Parlt. VI. 191/1 A pretensed Parlement..by usurped auctorite summoned..by your Rebell and Enemye. 1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xxiv. 175 Than shalbe more allowable a constaunt pacience than all vsurped power. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 34 b, Gregory..did put doune hymself of his owne propre mocion from his foolishe usurped name and Popishe dignitee. 1569T. Knell Epit. Boner A iiij, Sus taught Mineruam there to long, Which held vsurped place. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iii. 47 That from the Danishe Tyrants head shall rend Th' vsurped crowne. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xviii, Th' old Dragon under ground..Not half so far casts his usurped sway. 1672South Serm. (1717) V. 294 A Nation under an usurped Government. 1746Ld. Hardwicke in Harris Life (1847) II. 305 This usurped power was audaciously made use of. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xviii, The many other usurped rights which..the constitution was hourly establishing. 1831James Phil. Augustus I. xi, The resistance he meditated to the usurped authority of the pope. 1861Paley Aeschylus, Agam. (ed. 2) 1447 note, That the..usurped female authority over them, is intolerable to bear.
fig.1781Cowper Conversat. 462 Yet fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,..Holds an usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue.
b. Marked or characterized by usurpation.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. 2990 In ther fals vsurped tirannye To holde peeplis in long subieccioun. 1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 467/2 The usurped reigne of the same Henry. 1464Ibid. 511/2 The same Humfrey..traiterously adhered unto the seid Henry.., and..in his fals and usurped quarell,..toke hoole and full parte. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §13 His vsurped actions haue in him the same nature. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. I. 216 Henry was now resolved..to dispute..Stephen's usurped pretensions. c1850Fullarton's Gaz. Scotl. I. 135/1 During the usurped and military possession of Scotland by Edward I of England.
†2. Of persons: Holding office, exercising authority, by virtue of usurpation. Obs.
1569L. Avale (title), A Commemoration or Dirige of Bastarde Edmonde Boner,..vsurped Bisshoppe of London. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 84 Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government.
†3. Used or employed without due justification or warrant; appropriated, borrowed. Obs. rare.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 34 b, Gregory the .xij...did put doune hymself..from his foolishe usurped name. 1611Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 257 Vio[la]. This my masculine vsurp'd attyre. 1673J. Faldo Quakerism Title-p., A Key, for the understanding their sense of their many usurped and unintelligible words and phrases.
†b. False, counterfeit. Obs. rare—1.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 346 Come, be a man:..follow thou the Warres, defeate thy fauour, with an vsurp'd Beard.
Hence uˈsurpedly adv.
1545Brinklow Compl. 47 b, His accustomyd pollagys, which vsurpedly he had out of this reame. 1556J. Heywood Spider & Fly lxv. Ee ij, This spider hath vsurpedlie growne To potentate state. 1647Lilburne & Overton Out-cryes Oppr. Commons 1 The Lords..now sitting at Westminster, who have usurpedly..assumed..a power in criminall causes. |