USURPATION

usurpation

(noun) wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority); “a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation”

trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation

(noun) entry to another’s property without right or permission

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)

The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

Trespass onto another's property without permission.

A taking or use without right.

Source: Wiktionary

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U`sur*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. usurpatio making use, usurpation: cf. F. 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 used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.

He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him. Sir T. More. A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government. O. Ellsworth. Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States. D. Webster.

Note: Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.

2. Use; usage; custom. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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