usurp

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—How chang'd, alas!—Now ghastly desolation, In triumph, sits upon our shatter'd spires; Now superstition, ignorance, and errour, Usurp our temples, and profane our altars.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

It is not to be borne; are not you our Master's substitute? then why should he Usurp a privilege without your leave To preach unto the people a doctrine They ought not hear?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

Usurp, ū-zurp′, v.t. to take possession of by force without right.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Oh, where didst borrow that last sigh, And that relenting groan; Ladies that sigh and not for love, Usurp what's not their own.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various