[ad. L. arrogātiōn-em, n. of action f. arrogā-re: see ARROGATE and -ATION. Cf. OF. arrogacion (Godefroy).]
1. = ADROGATION. (So usually spelt in this sense.)
1590. Swinburn, Testaments, 162. For of adoption, arrogation, or any other meanes to make children lawfull, except marriage, wee haue no vse here in England.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, IV. § 77. If a paterfamilias … gives himself to you in arrogation.
2. The action of claiming and assuming without just reason; unwarrantable assumption.
1594. J. King, Jonah (1864), 64. Nor [was] the publican as he, in arrogation of justice.
1653. Manton, Expos. James, iii. 1. Censuring … is an arrogation of mastership over others.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 412. It seem’d so high an Arrogation, that he rent his clothes and said he had spoken blasphemie.
1839. J. Rogers, Antipopopr., I. iii. II. 76. Flattering to the power and arrogation of the priesthood.
