单词 | arrogation |
释义 | arrogationn. 1. Roman Law. Adoption of a person who is sui juris (sui juris adj. 3) and hence not subject to the legal power of another; = adrogation n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > adoptive or foster relationship > adoption adoption1340 arrogation1565 affiliation1623 whangai1948 third party adoption1965 open adoption1973 closed adoption1977 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον ii. v. f. 115 Caius doth make an other distinction betwene adoption and arrogation. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 161v For of adoption, arrogation, or any other meanes to make children lawfull, except marriage, wee haue no vse here in England. 1610 T. Stoughton Dignitie Gods Children (new ed.) iii. 28 Arrogation is the taking of one to bee a childe, which is already of age, and at libertie, and..his owne man: but adoption is of one vnder age. 1682 W. Evats tr. H. Grotius Rights War & Peace 115 Arrogation or Adoption, whereby a man translates himself into the Family of another. 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Civil Law ii. xii. 54 That species of Adoption, called Arrogation. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 129/1 The Prussian law does away with all distinction between adoption and arrogation. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 309 If a paterfamilias..gives himself to you in arrogation. 1969 Historia 18 584 The adoption or arrogation of someone who comes to be an own heir breaks a will. 2014 D. Dusinberre tr. B. Perreau Politics Adoption i. 2 They were done either by arrogation..or by adoption strictly speaking. 2. The action or an act of claiming for oneself a right, power, quality, etc., falsely or without justification.In quot. 1839 perhaps: arrogating behaviour; presumptuousness or arrogance. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > wrongful claim, possession, or seizure > unwarranted claim usurpation1426 arrogating1573 misclaiming1583 arrogation1596 assumption1646 try-on1823 1596 J. Norden Progr. Pietie f. 47v That hideous Hacket,..who was transformed into no lesse in arrogation of title, then into Christ himself. 1651 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James (iii. 1) 347 Censuring 'tis an arrogation of mastership over others. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. xiii. 412 It seem'd so high an Arrogation, that he rent his clothes and said he had spoken blasphemie. 1700 T. Beverley Good Hope through Grace 16 Whether such Insolencies of Arrogation are to be found in the whole World, as in the Papacy and its Church of Rome. 1796 T. Beddoes Ess. Public Merits Mr. Pitt x. 172 The opinion of contemporaries confirmed this arrogation of superiority. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian i. iii. ii. 76 Flattering to the power and arrogation of the priesthood. 1881 House of Lords (LSE Sel. Pamphlets) 22 Those who resent its [sc. the House of Lords'] arrogation of class privileges. 1921 Theosophical Path Dec. 579 What is the authority for such arrogation? 1987 Crain's Chicago Business (Nexis) 26 Oct. 61 Territorial powers..deeply resented the Parent personnel department's arrogation of authority. 2015 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 July a13 The critics believe they should decide what should proceed, how and when—a breathtaking arrogation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565 |
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