usurp

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc)…

   To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means).

   • [S]o he dies, But soon revives, Death over him no power Shall long usurp […]
   • […] usurped or took any name or title of honor or dignity. In many cases it happened that persons who had usurped arms without authority, entered their names […]
   • In this case, you have usurped the copyright owner's reasonably expected right to make a derivative work[.]
2. 2

   To take the place the place of someone or something else

   To take the place the place of someone or something else; to supplant.

   • The recent authorities have usefully drawn attention to the need to ensure that any assessment of the merits of a case does not usurp careful attention to the criteria in section 10(9), to which we now turn.
3. 3

   To make use of.

   • "[…] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […]"

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