arrogate
verb (used with object)
to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right.
arrogated
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past participleof arrogate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof arrogate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
arrogateverb (used with object)to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right.
Example Sentences
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Today, we have a priest who has disbanded the pastoral council and arrogated governance to himself and his staff.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
To Covington & Burling, the answer was clear: it lay with Congress, and, if Trump arrogated that power to himself, the firm was prepared to take on a lawsuit pro bono.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
He had arrogated to himself the privilege to call, and to assume the president would take his call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2018
But journalists have arrogated it to themselves in disproportionate numbers.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018
She arrogated to herself all the incense around her; and, in point of adulation, she was like the daughter of the horse-leech, whose cry was, "give! give!"
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
