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usurpant

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin usurpans, present participle.

Adjective edit

usurpant (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Usurping; encroaching.
    • 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England:
      factious and insolent Presbyters ventured to be extravagant and usurpant

References edit

“usurpant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Verb edit

usurpant

  1. gerund of usurpar

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Participle edit

usurpant

  1. present participle of usurper

Latin edit

Verb edit

ūsūrpant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of ūsūrpō
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