Word Meanings - USURPANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.

Related words: (words related to USURPANT)

• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• USURPATORY
  Marked by usurpation; usurping.
• USURPER
  One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.
• USURPINGLY
  In a usurping manner.
• ENCROACHINGLY
  By way of encroachment.
• ENCROACHMENT
  An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. (more info) 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil
• USURP
  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. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another
• USURPATION
  1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also
• ENCROACH
  To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach