arrogatedadj.

1584 W. Allen True Def. Eng. Catholiques viii. 197 His arrogated preeminence and exercise of iurisdiction in such matters..is, Abominatio desolationis, fortold by Daniel.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 140 Whether such an arrogated liberty or licentiousnes, hath not alwaies proceeded from certain corrupt affections?

a1675 J. Lightfoot Remains (1700) 245 The Church of Rome proclaims her self pompously in her arrogated Titles.

1727 W. Harte Poems Several Occasions 242 When tyrants, proud Of arrogated greatness, without law Unpeople realms, and breathe but to destroy.

1798 R. Heron New Gen. Hist. Scotl. IV. v. 311 The arrogated powers of the Papal clergy, to dispense, at their pleasure, the mercy of God.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v. 84/1 The universally-arrogated Virtue..of these days..Independence.

1974 N. Amer. Rev. Summer 57/1 A conservative hiding behind an arrogated heritage.

2014 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 Nov. (Opinion section) 24 The only way to curb the power of the court is to take direct action against the sources of its arrogated powers.

1749 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutes: Liber Primus i. xi. §3. 118 An Arrogator is also prohibited to emancipate, unless he has given legal Proof that his arrogated Son deserves Emancipation.

1769 S. Hallifax Heads Course Lect. Rom. Civil Law xii. 75 During the life of his Arrogated Son, he should have a right to nothing, but the Usufruct of that Son's Peculium Adventitium.

1855 H. le M. Chepmell & F. C. F. Demmler tr. B. G. Niebuhr Lect. Rom. Hist. 449 They were entirely dependent upon Rome, like an arrogated son on his father.

1894 C. T. Gardner Missionary Question China 7 The adopted or arrogated son who performs the sacra succeeds to the personal estate of the defunct before the agnate relations.

1909 G. W. Botsford Rom. Assemblies viii. 161 At the same meeting the arrogated son was required to declare that he forsook the religion of the family or gens of his birth.