Indeed; and your Eminence must recall how lacking in respect to you the reverend Father Morlet was, who arrogated to himself the chairmanship of our meeting.
They arrogated to themselves the right to vote the taxes, and declared that if the royal authority should order them to dissolve, they would not be responsible for the outcome.
Mr. Roger Morton was seated--for the last four years, ever since his second mayoralty, he hadarrogated to himself the dignity of a chair.
The patricians who occupied the haut de la cite had arrogated to themselves well-nigh all power.
In the end Savoy arrogatedto itself the right of appointing to the see, and its nominees were, it is needless to say, always members of its own house.
Yet at one time the Duke of Savoy had arrogatedto himself the rights of vicedom, that is, temporal justice of the bishop as his vassal.
First Consul, was one which he much desired to possess, and which, by the most happy of all usurpations, he arrogated to himself.
All arrogated to themselves exclusively the title of pure royalists: the title of honest men.
The title of Emperor of the French, which he arrogated to himself, could not be a title to proscription.
But by degrees the powerarrogated to itself by the "Holy Vehm" became so formidable that succeeding emperors were unable to control its workings and found themselves forced to become initiates from motives of self-protection.
The right that the lay chiefs arrogated to themselves of giving absolution.
As intermediary between the Tartars and Russian states he enjoyed privileges denied to his seniors, and arrogated to himself the title and position of "Prince of all the Russias.
In his eighteenth year hearrogated to himself the title of Tsar--the name by which all great rulers were designated in the old Slavonic books he had read.
My government cannot remain indifferent in view of such a violent and aggressive seizure of a portion of its territory by a nation which has arrogated to itself the title, 'champion of oppressed nations.
That principle was established by the House of Commons, and consequently they arrogated to themselves that part of the legislative power.
It is hard to see why, except that the mediaeval church arrogated to itself anything that concerned sin in any way--anything that concerned the relation of the sexes, that concerned the Holy Sacraments, and marriage is a sacrament.
There was no monarch in an oriental sense, and the chosen leaders of the Greeks never, until the late days, arrogatedart to themselves.
They arrogated to themselves the chief thought of life, and the aim of the great bulk of the art was to glorify monarchy or deity.
For the Pharaohs shared architecture, painting, and sculpture with the gods; but the Sargonids seem to have arrogated the most of these things to themselves alone.
It is from these pretences, that the popes have impudently arrogated the power of disposing of crowns, of exciting insurrections and wars, and of deciding upon the rights of sovereigns and people.
It is probably by virtue of this right of chastising, here assumed by St. Paul, that the Pontiffs and Priests of the Christians have since arrogated to themselves an unlimited spiritual power over, the thoughts of their subjects.
Thy life, that arrogated such an height To end in such a nothing!
No despot ever arrogatedsuch power as yourself, or exercised it in such a way.
Rantzau was jealous of the Privy Cabinet Minister for having arrogated to himself all power and all authority.
The greatest misfortune of the Empire was, perhaps, the abuse of the right arrogated by the wearers of epaulettes.
The success of "Life in London," which he arrogated to himself, raised up a crop of enemies as well as friends, and he soon afterwards received his conge from the proprietors of the Dispatch.
This is the first definite expression of the fancy that Shakespeare was only a man of straw who had arrogated to himself the renown of an unknown immortal.
Their attacks upon the admirable poet Horace, whose name and personality the extremely dissimilar Ben Jonson hasarrogated to himself, spring from contemptible motives, and receive a disgraceful punishment.
He had arrogated nothing unto himself, asked for nothing, demanded nothing in virtue of his protecting powers over her.
She had arrogated to herself that which was God's alone--"Vengeance!
In truth, Madam, if you weigh in an equitable balance the pretended advantages of man above the other animals, you will soon see how evanescent is this fictitious superiority which he has arrogated to himself.
In all times there have been people who felt the futility of the titles upon which the priests have arrogated the right of enslaving the understandings of men, and of subjugating and despoiling nations.
But Massood arrogated even these rights to himself, and the helpless successor of the Prophet was obliged to submit to the indignity which he could not prevent.
These did not fail soon to pour in: the Saxon clergy, over whom he had arrogated a right of investiture, appeared as his principal accusers.
These bands arrogated to themselves the title of National Guard, and then what took place at Marseilles in the excitement of the moment was repeated at Nimes with deliberation and method, inspired by hate and the desire of vengeance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrogated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
