单词 | arrogator |
释义 | arrogatorn. 1. A person who claims for himself or herself a right, power, quality, etc., falsely or without justification. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > wrongful claim, possession, or seizure > unwarranted claim > one who arrogator1609 1609 A. Linton Newes Complement Art of Navigation 43 Of this kind of derogators, and arrogators, and transporting kind of men, there wanteth no store at any time. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια i. 376 Against all Merlinicall arrogators, prorogators, derogators. 1787 Olla Podrida 28 July 116 A lower kind of importance is frequently assumed from the excellence of one's domestic animals,..when the arrogator of their merit has neither bred, chosen, nor taught them. 1818 L. Hunt in Examiner 26 July 465/2 The nonsensical arrogators of divine right. 1865 Isle of Wight Observer 6 May I have never contemplated being an arrogator, arbitrator, or dictator in the matter. 1957 Spectator 17 May 649/2 Why should the Chairman of the Press Council be scared by a nightmare of Lord Goddard growling, ‘See you later, arrogator’? 1977 Foreign Affairs 55 385 For Stalin..Mao was an arrogator, a potential competitor. 2013 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 30 Nov. 53 Littlemore himself might be seen as a travelling arrogator. 2. Roman Law. A person who adrogates; = adrogator n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > adoptive or foster relationship > adoption > adoption of one who is his own master > one who practises arrogatora1732 adrogator1854 a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. ix. 92 The Arrogator ought to give caution, that, after the Death of the Person arrogated, he will restore all his Goods and Estates to such Persons to whom they devolve. 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Civil Law ii. xii. 54 He..transferred himself and all his rights, except such as perished by the change of family, to the Arrogator. 1849 P. M. de Colquhoun Summ. Rom. Civil Law I. ii. iv. 552 The arrogator had to give security that he would restore the property if the arrogated person..died during his minority. 1876 T. L. Mears Anal. M. Ortolan's Inst. Justinian 255 The arrogator and the natural father were placed on the same level. 1907 D. Chalmers & L. H. Barnes Student's Guide Rom. Law i. 25 Arrogator had to give security as to returning of the property before an official. 2004 C. J. Reid Power over Body, Equality in Family iv. 190 One who has been arrogated..was thereby transferred to the power of the arrogator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1609 |
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