USURP', s as z. L. usurpo.
To seize and hold in possession by force or without right as, to usurp a throne to usurp the prerogatives of the crown to usurp power. To usurp the right of a patron, is to oust or dispossess him.
Vice sometimes usurps the place of virtue.
Usurp is not applied to common dispossession of private property.
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