Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means). · To take the place of someone or something else; to supplant. · To make use of.
From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō.
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