arrogate
/ˈarəɡeɪt
/verb [with object]
Take or claim (something) without justification: they arrogate to themselves the ability to divine the nation’s true interests...
- If Israel continues to seize and arrogate our land and ignore the rule of international law and legitimacy, then, yes, the ultimate outcome would be the resumption of violence and bloodshed.
- In this, the government with a good majority is actually arrogating the powers of Parliament.
- The Executive Branch arrogates the authority to become the investigator, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and then the executioner.
Synonyms
assume, take, take on, take over, secure, acquire, seize, expropriate, take possession of, help oneself to, make free with, appropriate, steal, wrest, usurp, commandeer, hijack, annex, claim, lay claim to
Derivatives
arrogation
/ noun ...- To presume to have all the answers is nothing but dangerous delusion for it is based on the arrogation of divine potency.
- The judiciary's authority and independence was significantly impaired during the Abacha era by the military regime's arrogation of judicial power and prohibition of court review of its action.
- There is, in fact, a firm bloc of three reactionaries - Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas - that supports the executive branch's arrogation of unprecedented police powers.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin arrogat- 'claimed for oneself', from the verb arrogare, from ad- 'to' + rogare 'ask'.