Usurp
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.
(2): ( v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
King James Dictionary [2]
USURP', s as z. L. usurpo.
To seize and hold in possession by force or without right as, to usurp a throne to usurp the prerogatives of the crown to usurp power. To usurp the right of a patron, is to oust or dispossess him.
Vice sometimes usurps the place of virtue.
Usurp is not applied to common dispossession of private property.
