Though it avoids taking to its account the errors it commits, and the mischiefs it occasions, it fails not to arrogate to itself whatever has the appearance of prosperity.
Did he dimly claim the rights of strength in his mind, and arrogate to himself the prerogatives of arbitrary kings?
Did he arrogate yet further prerogatives of kings?
The priests arrogate the possession of judging exclusively and without appeal of a system evidently invented for their own utility.
If a minister would arrogate to himself his free-born privilege of being a thorough-going man, many of his troubles would disappear.
No man mayarrogate it--no pastor for people, no husband for wife, no wife for husband, no parent for child.
She abetted him, as she had promised, in all his tactics; lent the full force of an authority, which his sweetness and modesty could by no means arrogate to himself, to compel the reforms he sang.
We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness, until we have been touched to the quick where we are sensitive and borne it meekly.
But what is it to arrogate to one's self perfection, if this is not?
For, even had his claim been less urgent, ill would it have beseemed us to arrogate the lordships of all England as our dues.
The king, too, was repeatedly compelled to hear the same statement, and she left nothing undone to arrogate to herself the glory of any future advantages which it might be the good fortune of the duke to realize.
Of all the Spaniards the Castilians require to be, governed with the most caution; but the liberties which they arrogate for themselves they do not willingly accord to others.
That dear distinction he durst no longerarrogate to himself.
It is a power that you wish to exercise, an interest that you wish to satisfy, a prerogative that you arrogate to yourself; it is a contest of vanity.
Presumptuous and ignorant men, whoarrogate the earth to yourselves!
The whole story resembles much the fables circulated shortly after the discovery of Columbus, to arrogate to other nations and individuals the credit of the achievement.
Vespucci may have supposed Brazil, Paria, and the rest of that coast, part of a distinct continent, and have been anxious to arrogate to himself the fame of its discovery.
In other matters pride of intellect is not so dangerous, but in theology it is utterly pestilential to desire to arrogate anything to oneself.
Surely no pastor would arrogate to himself such authority in temporal concerns.
It is therefore small wonder that men more cunning than their fellows should arrogate to themselves the power of producing it, or that having gained such a reputation, they should trade on the credulity of their simpler neighbours.
They do not arrogate to themselves either the right or the power of drawing conclusions; and the synthesis which results from their experiments can only be a premature conjecture, more or less plausible.
I inform you of this fact, lest I should seem to arrogate to myself the merits which belong to others.
Does it arrogate too much to the supreme legislature?
Pagans are as worthy of esteem as the bigots whoarrogate to themselves the monopoly of heavenly rewards.
Surely," protested Mr. Poynter, "you do not arrogate the right to dictate to other employers what they shall pay their workmen?
How did He dare arrogateto himself such a dominion as that?
It does not array itself against the church, nor presume to arrogate its functions, or to supervise its teachings.
We meant not to arrogate to ourselves any undue superiority, but simply to state a fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrogate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
