Usurped

Examples

• The feudal state was one in which, it has been said, private law had usurped the place of public law. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These ideas made him inflexible in his rule, and violent in his hate of any who presumed to share with him his usurped empire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The heir, whose rights he had usurped, was the heir who would now have the estate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Human being there was none to reply; and the inclemency of the night had driven the wandering animals to the habitations they had usurped. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was no sooner within than the pad of the little window in the back of the chariot disappeared, and his eye usurped its place. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Typist: Sharif