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Meanings of arrogate in English

Portuguese
usurpar

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force.

usurpar
Portuguese
reclamar

Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.

reclamar

Make undue claims to having.

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Examples for "assign"
Examples for "assign"
1
The latter are used to assign different pseudocolors to specific chromosomal regions.
Pubmed
2
This has allowed the state to assign resources to upgrade farming infrastructure.
Reuters
3
A sealed envelope was used to assign patients to each intervention group.
Pubmed
4
We will now assign the berths in the steerage to the crew.
Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat: A Story of Travel and Ad...
5
Segmentation results from successive frames are used to assign correspondences among MTs.
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Usage of arrogate in English
1
How did He dare arrogate to himself such a dominion as that?
The Jericho Road
2
He would not even arrogate to himself the name of antiquary.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
3
The Parisians, excluding all others, arrogate to themselves the only knowledge of divinity.
The Praise of Folly
4
Now Your Holiness is thinking that I arrogate to myself a miraculous clairvoyance.
The Saint
5
There does not exist such a power of possessing as he would arrogate.
The Hope of the Gospel
6
Neither hoar hairs nor wrinkles can arrogate reverence as their right.
Cicero
7
But it is not for me to arrogate to determine the Queen's mind.
St. Martin's Summer
8
Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity.
Dracula
9
That dear distinction he durst no longer arrogate to himself.
Thaddeus of Warsaw
10
What right had he to arrogate to himself again powers of life and death?
K
11
Did he arrogate yet further prerogatives of kings?-prerogativeswhich even kings claim no longer.
The Life of the Fields
12
Presumptuous and ignorant men, who arrogate the earth to yourselves!
The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the ...
13
Thou art not so bad a republican as to arrogate all Paris to thyself!
Zanoni
14
They arrogate to themselves the whole sovereignty in Brittany.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
15
Now, I must premise that I arrogate to myself no exhibitory rights in this lady.
At a Winter's Fire
16
You seem almost disposed to arrogate to yourself a peculiar regard for this divine treasure.
A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation / In Reply ...
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