usurpant
English
Etymology
Latin usurpans, present participle.
Adjective
usurpant (not comparable)
- (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
- 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England
References
usurpant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- pursuant
French
Participle
usurpant
- present participle of usurper
Latin
Verb
ūsūrpant
- third-person plural present active indicative of ūsūrpō