usurpantt (uzerpant)

[L. usurp an ( t- ) s, ppr. of usurp are, usurp: see usurp.] Inclined or apt to usurp; guilty of usurping; encroaching. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 473. usurpation (ū-zér-pā'shon), n. [ F.usurpation = Sp. usurp a cion = Pg. usurp ação = It. usurp a zione, pying and enjoying the place, power, functions, or property of another without right; especially, the wrongful occupation of a throne: as, the usurpation of supreme power. IMG:content-1651.png:[blocks in formation] The Par lament therefore without any usurpation hath had it alwaies in thir power to limit and confine the exorbitancie of Kings. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xi. 2. In law: (a) Intrusion into an office or a umption of a franchise, whether on account of vacancy or by ousting the incumbent, without any color of title. (b) Such intrusion or a umption without lawful title. (c) The absolute ouster and dispo e ion of the patron of a church by presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who is thereupon admitted and instituted; intrusion.-31. Use; usage. [A Latinism.] There can be no kind of certainty in any such observations of the articles, because the Greeks promiscuously often use them or omit them, without any reason of their usurpation or omi ion. Bp. Pearson , Exposition of the Creed, ii. usurpatory (ū-zėr'pa-to-ri), a. [ usurp a tori us , of or pertaining to a usurper, usurp at or , a usurper, L. usurp are , pp. usurp at us , usurp: see usurp .] Characterized or marked by usurpation; usurping.