arrogate
pronunciation
How to pronounce arrogate in British English:
UK [ˈærəgeɪt]
How to pronounce arrogate in American English:
US [ˈærəˌɡet]
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- Verb:
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- make undue claims to having
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
Word Origin
- arrogate (v.)
- 1530s, from Latin arrogatus, past participle of arrogare "to claim for oneself" (see arrogance). Related: Arrogated; arrogating.
Example
- 1. Don 't arrogate wrong intentions to your colleagues .
- 2. Do not arrogate wrong intentions to your friends .
- 3. Don 't easily arrogate evil motives to others .
- 4. When you walk in the park and see the colorful flowers , do you pick them off and arrogate to yourself ?
- 5. In its last analysis , it is not freedom ofthought which endangers jewish values , but the freedom which somepeople arrogate to themselves not to think at all .