arrogate

From Latin arrogātus, perfect passive participle of adrogō, arrogō (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rogō (“ask”), 1530s.[1]

arrogate (third-person singular simple present arrogates, present participle arrogating, simple past and past participle arrogated)

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

   Synonyms: commandeer, expropriate, usurp

   Antonyms: abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce

   • 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith

     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.

   • 1874, Patrick James Stirling, Maudit Argent!, Putnam, translation of original by Frédéric Bastiat, page 169:

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

   • 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.”

   • 2019 March 14, Aditya Chakrabortty, “The problem is not so much Theresa May – it’s that Britain is now ungovernable”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

• arrogance
• arrogant
• arrogation

• arrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arrogate at OneLook Dictionary Search

arrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of arrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of arrogare
3. feminine plural of arrogato

arrogāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of arrogō