Arrogate

Quick meaning: Arrogate is a verb meaning (transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

Meaning

(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

Example Sentences

Unfortunately, certain capitalists have arrogated to themselves monopolies and privileges which are quite sufficient to account for this [commotion of the populace against capitalists].

What is remarkable about the challenged statute and rules is not that they address medical treatments with both risks and benefits but that they arrogate to the state the right to make that decision.

Britain has spent 40-plus years arrogating more and more power to its centre – and now its centre has no idea of how to wield that power. That I think is the fundamental political and economic crisis we face today.

Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

Word Forms

• arrogates
• arrogating
• arrogated

Synonyms for arrogate

Depending on context, synonyms include commandeer, expropriate, usurp, ascribe, assume, claim.

Antonyms for arrogate

Common opposites include abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce, render, waive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include usurp, claim, assign, take over, ascribe, assume.

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