Word Meanings - USURP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another

Additional info about word: USURP

To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. Burke. Note: Usurp is applied to seizure and use of office, functions, powers, rights, etc.; it is not applied to common dispossession of private property. Syn. -- To arrogate; assume; appropriate. (more info) of, usurp; the first part of usurpare is akin to usus use (see Use,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of USURP)

• Assume
• Take
• appropriate
• arrogate
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• claim
• pretend
• feign
• affect
• Domineer
• Lord
• tyrannize
• assume

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of USURP)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to USURP)

• 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.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• 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
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• POSTULATE
  The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• 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.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.