Usurp

With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.

I want to usurp the throne.

I didn't mean to usurp anybody.

I know that my young gallant will wonderfully usurp the grace, voice, bearing, and mannerisms of a high-born lady.

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

Most Republicans in Congress are complying as Mr. Trump usurps the power of the national legislature, as laid out in Article 1 of the Constitution.

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.

Jones answered all his questions with much civility, though he never remembered to have seen the petty-fogger before; and though he concluded, from the outward appearance and behaviour of the man, that he usurped a freedom with his betters, to which he was by no means intitled.

"[…] 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 […]"