Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined or apt to usurp; guilty of usurping; encroaching, Bp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Usurping; encroaching.
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- adjective obsolete
Usurping ;encroaching .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I. Christianae religionis reuerentiam plures usurpant, sed ea fides pollet maxime ac solitarie quae cum propter uniuersalium praecepta regularum, quibus eiusdem religionis intellegatur auctoritas, tum propterea, quod eius cultus per omnes paene mundi terminos emanauit, catholica uel uniuersalis uocatur.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Alioqui enim sacramenta non essent, quae re significata duntaxat constarent, signa non essent: sed ideo usurpant signa rerum nomina, quod rerum sacrarum sint symbola mystica, et signa et res significatae inter se sacramentaliter conjungantur, conjungantur inquam, vel uniantur per significationem mysticam, et voluntatem vel consilium ejus, qui sacramenta instituit.
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Alioqui enim sacramenta non essent, quae re significata duntaxat constarent, signa non essent: sed ideo usurpant signa rerum nomina, quod rerum sacrarum sint symbola mystica, et signa et res significatae inter se sacramentaliter conjungantur, conjungantur inquam, vel uniantur per significationem mysticam, et voluntatem vel consilium ejus, qui sacramenta instituit.
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Elcgans est Gronovii conjefiura 9 quam nt in metu quid&m pericula nortra advertunt » i* e* ad sese vertunt: quo sensu scriptores optlmi vocem adver "tere frequentcr usurpant.
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Gabriel Brotier 1782
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