单词 | super-arrogate |
释义 | super-arrogatev. Now rare. transitive. To claim or assume (a right, etc.) with great arrogance; to arrogate to (or †unto) a person or group excessively or without justification. Also intransitive: to behave with great arrogance. Cf. super-arrogation n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > be or become arrogant [verb (transitive)] > claim with arrogance super-arrogate1601 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 118 Howsoeuer the pride of mans nature might superarrogate some thing vnto it selfe. 1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches ii. sig. Dv You seeme to me to super-arrogate, Supplying the defects of all your kindred To innoble your own name. 1956 Lok Sabha Deb. (India) 27 July ii. No. 9. 1156 Superarrogating to itself the powers of the Cabinet, in defiance of the elementary principles of parliamentary democracy. 1984 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 21 May Hart said he has constitutional problems with the bill, saying it would ‘super-arrogate to Congress some executive authority’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1601 |
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