Also arrogator. [a. L. adrogātor n. of agent f. adrogā-re to ADROGATE.] Rom. Law. He who adrogates.
1774. Hallifax, Rom. Civ. Law (1795), 58. He … by that species of adoption, called Arrogation, transferred himself and all his rights, except such as perished by the change of family, to the Arrogator.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, 40. If a man who … has children in his potestas give himself in adrogation, not only does he himself become subject to the potestas of the adrogator, but his children do so too in the character of grandchildren.
