arrogate (arrogates, present participle arrogating; past and past participle arrogated)

1. (transitive, rare) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

   Synonyms: commandeer, expropriate, usurp

   Antonyms: abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0029 ↗:

     “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

• arrogance
• arrogant
• arrogation

• German: an sich reißen
• Portuguese: arrogar
• Russian: самонаде́янно претендова́ть
• Spanish: arrogarse