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单词 usurper
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usurpern.

Brit. /juːˈzəːpə/, /jᵿˈzəːpə/, /juːˈsəːpə/, /jᵿˈsəːpə/, U.S. /juˈsərpər/, /juˈzərpər/
Forms: Also Middle English usurpur, 1500s Scottish -ar.
Etymology: < Old French usurpeur (1321), or < usurp v. + -er suffix1. Compare usurpor n., and Provençal usurpaire.
1.
a. One who usurps a crown or throne; one who seizes or arrogates supreme power or authority without right or just cause.In frequent use from c1700.
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society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > [noun] > wrongful assumption of office or authority > one who
usurper1414
usurpor1474
usurpator?1530
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal assumption of authority > one who
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usurpor1474
usurpator?1530
usurpatrix1611
usurpress1640
1414 Earl of Cambridge in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 45 Harry of Lancastre usurpur of Yngland.
1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 193/2 His enemies mortall, the usurpers, laboryng..to exclude hym..from the Regalie.
1520 Chron. Eng. v. f. 62/1 He..slewe Leo the vsurper of his realme.
1574 Homilies ii. Rebellion vi. 609 That forraigne false vsurper the Bishop of Rome.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) i. Porrex. f. 44 v Vsurpers may perswade themselues a while There is no God, no lawes of sacred crowne.
1627 P. Fletcher Locustæ i. xxi They crowne Usurpers with a wreath of lead.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 95 They sounded the first Trumpet to Rebellion,..courting and recognizing an Usurper [sc. Cromwell].
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 69 If the Devil, the ancient Usurper of his Throne, had not been at work again to step up in his Room.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 32 But King James was a bad king with a good title, and not an usurper . View more context for this quotation
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus II. ii The barons of England adhered to an usurper..rather than to their legitimate prince.
1869 J. B. Brown Misread Passages ix. 124 Who would recognise an usurper because he occupies the palace and assumes the signet of the rightful king?
1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. v. 189 Macbeth was not a mere usurper.
attributive and in other combinations.1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iii. i. 23 Too well I know her blandishments to gain, Usurper-like, till setled in her Reign.1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks xii. 66 The power of the half usurper king of Egypt.
b. One who illegally or unjustly seizes, appropriates, or intrudes into any office, property, rights, etc. Also const. upon.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc. > one who
usurperc1425
intrusor1430
intruder1534
infringer1541
encroacher1581
invader1637
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > appropriation > without right > one who
supplantera1393
usurperc1425
usurpator?1530
grabber1849
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 682 There were bosters, braggars, & brybores,..Wrong vsurpers, with great extorcioners.
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 547 Gif he [sc. a discharged custom-house officer] forder intromettis, he salbe repute ane usurpar to our Soverane Lordis authoritie.
1599 T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. D4 Victorious Iosuah that in armes subdued Prophane vsurpers of their hallowed things, And smote their leaders.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 277 b When an estranger that no right hath presenteth to a Church, and his Clarke is admitted and instituted, hee is said to bee an vsurper, and the wrongfull act..is called an Usurpation.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 37 In Desarts thou wert bred; And at the Dugs of Salvage Tygers fed: Alien of Birth, Usurper of the Plains.
1713 E. Gibson Codex Juris Eccl. Anglicani 782/2 If the Incumbency be by Usurpation, and the Usurper and Ordinary Confirm the Parson's Lease.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. x. 214 Compelled..to submit to the jurisdiction of magistrates, whom they destested as usurpers.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 19 They represented him as..an unjust usurper upon the privileges of the council.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 237 The tyrant usurpers of our rights.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 44 ‘The end was, I got my bed.’...‘And what excuse..did the usurper offer for his intrusion?’
c. figurative and transferred.
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a1628 F. Greville Cælica xcvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 244 Pleasure is chosen as a Goddesse fit, The wealth of Nature freely to impart;..Which faire Vsurper runnes a Rebels way.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 186 The vsurpers of Gods word..maintaine..that famous Kingdome, being but one thousand and fifty Turkes in all.
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 222 [He] becomes..actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
1898 T. De W. Talmage Serm. in N.Y. Christian Herald 12 Jan. 24/3 That man has made that which might be a healthful recreation an usurper of his affections.
1900 ‘J. Doe’ Bridge Man. 9 If a player deals out of turn he may be stopped.., but if he completes his deal, the deal holds good, and the usurpers make the declaration.
2. A conqueror or vanquisher of something.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > one who
masterc1230
overcomerc1350
conquerorc1374
victora1400
overbearera1425
overgangerc1440
vanquisher1474
usurper1509
subduer1516
overthrower1548
defeater1582
prevailer1596
masterer1600
queller1613
conquerant1655
dompter1672
1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) lxiv I [sc. Christ] am lorde and kynge of blysse, Usurper of dethe, myghty in fyght.

Derivatives

uˈsurpership n. rare.
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society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > [noun] > wrongful assumption of office or authority > one who > position of
usurpership1781
1781 Bp. Watson in Farquhar Bps. of Dunkeld (1915) iii. 18 As if the Lord's Day had been equally the institution of his [George III's] present usurpership.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

usurperv.

Etymology: < usurper n.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive (with it). To play the usurper.
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society > authority > [verb (intransitive)] > exercise usurped authority
usurpc1425
usurper1656
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession [verb (intransitive)] > appropriate > without right or usurp
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1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 57 He invades, and evades Law, and..yet neither Usurpers nor Arbytraters it.
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