Bible Dictionary: Usurp

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To seize, and hold by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.

2. (v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

Greek

831. authenteo -- to govern, exercise authority
... govern, exercise authority. From a compound of autos and an obsolete hentes (a worker);
to act of oneself, ie (figuratively) dominate -- usurp authority over. ...
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Library

Gainas the Goth Attempts to Usurp the Sovereign Power; after ...
... Book VI. Chapter VI."Gaïnas the Goth attempts to usurp the Sovereign Power;
after filling Constantinople with Disorder, he is slain. ...
/.../chapter vi gainas the goth attempts.htm

The End of Cambyses.
... manage the government in his stead during his absence, lest he should take advantage
of the temporary power thus committed to his hands, and usurp the throne ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/darius the great/chapter ii the end of.htm

Titus ii. 5-Feb
... (1 Timothy 2:12.) But mark what he has added, "Nor to usurp authority over the man."
For at the beginning it was permitted to men to teach both men and women. ...
/.../homily iv titus ii 5-feb.htm

May the Third Other Gods!
... To put nothing "before" God! What is left in the circle of obedience? God first,
always and everywhere. Nothing allowed to usurp His throne for an hour! ...
/.../jowett/my daily meditation for the circling year/may the third other gods.htm

That Presbyters Should not Sell the Goods of the Church in which ...
... Nor should the bishop without necessity usurp the property of the maternal (matricis)
Church [nor should a presbyter usurp the property of his own cure (tituli ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xxxiii greek xxxvi that.htm

Forms Versus Character
... subordinate worth"in these things, and in that respect they are not nothing, nor
do they 'avail nothing.' But then all external rites tend to usurp more than ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/forms versus character.htm

Epistle Lxxii. To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.
... of divine Scripture, when we say that all things are arranged by divine direction
by a certain law and by special ordinance, and that none can usurp to himself ...
/.../cyprian/the epistles of cyprian/epistle lxxii to jubaianus concerning.htm

Appendix.
... been among those who were least given to assume to themselves a title to
power;"they have been found to defend themselves, but not rashly to usurp authority. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/appendix.htm

George Buchanan, Scholar
... At such a crisis of thought and taste, it was natural that the classical scholar,
the man who knew old Rome, and still more old Greece, should usurp the place ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/george buchanan scholar.htm

Impressive Phrases
... apparent, ostensible, plausible, and specious. appropriate, use, arrogate,
and usurp [arrogate = claim without right; appropriate]. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

Thesaurus

Usurp (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To seize, and hold by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to
usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. ...
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Usury (17 Occurrences)

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Usurious (1 Occurrence)

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Silence (80 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS RSV). 1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in silence. (KJV WBS). ...
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Suffer (195 Occurrences)
... RSV). 1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority
over the man, but to be in silence. (KJV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Usurp (1 Occurrence)

1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
(KJV WBS)

Subtopics

Usurp

Usurpation in Religious Affairs by King Ahaz

Usurpation in Religious Affairs by King Saul, in Assuming Priestly Functions

Usurpation in Religious Affairs by King Solomon, in Thrusting Abiathar out of the Priesthood

Usurpation in Religious Affairs by King Uzziah, in Assuming Priestly offices

Usurpation of Executive Power in Ordering Naboth's Death and Confiscation of his Vineyard

Usurpation of Executive Power of Pharaoh, Making Bondservants of the Israelites

Usurpation of Executive Power: Moses Accused of