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Usurp

//juˈsɝp// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

    "[S]o he dies, But soon revives, Death over him no power Shall long usurp […]"

  2. 2
    seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession wordnet
  3. 3
    To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
  4. 4
    take the place of wordnet
  5. 5
    To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

    "But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers."

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  1. 6
    To make use of. obsolete

    ""[…] 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 […]""

Etymology

From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō (ūsus use + rapiō seize).

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