[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Unduly assuming, pretentious, overbearing.

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1602.  Dekker, Satirom., Wks. 1873, I. 195. The one a light voluptuous Reueler, The other, a strange arrogating puffe.

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1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xix. The arrogating manner in which the Bohemian had promised to back his suit.

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