Word Meanings - ARROGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding

Additional info about word: ARROGATE

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARROGATE)

• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• take
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• endorse
• avow
• appropriate
• Take
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• claim
• pretend
• feign
• affect
• Usurp
• Seize
• assume

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ARROGATE)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to ARROGATE)

• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• ELECTROTYPE
  A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.