MEANING
To claim a power, privilege, or right for oneself without sufficient authority.
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Words that belong together
- arrogate power to oneself
- arrogate the right
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The captain arrogated to himself the authority to judge them.
No governor could arrogate the council’s powers without protest.
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Word forms
- Base
- arrogate
- Past tense
- arrogated
- Past participle
- arrogated
- Present participle
- arrogating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- arrogate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are arrogating
- Present perfect
- have/has arrogated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been arrogating
- Past
- arrogated
- Past continuous
- was/were arrogating
- Past perfect
- had arrogated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been arrogating
- Future
- will arrogate
- Future continuous
- will be arrogating
- Future perfect
- will have arrogated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been arrogating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: arrogate; arrogates; arrogated; arrogated; arrogating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: arrogates.
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