arrogation

[Lat. arrogatio ; from arrogo to ask,. to adopt as a son: ad = to, and rogo = to ask.] 1. The act of arrogating; claiming or taking to one's self more than is one's due. have still a smack of arrogation and self seeking." More's Poems: Notes on Psychozoia, p. 371. ( Boucher .) 2. Among the old Romans: The act of formally adopting an adult as a son. recourse was then had to adoption, properly called arrogation."- Note by Guizot in Gibbon's Decline and Fall , " chap. xliv. (ed. 1846), vol. iv., p. 211.