usurpator

English

Alternative forms

• usurpatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French usurpateur or Late Latin ūsūrpātor.

Noun

usurpator (plural usurpators)

1. A usurper.
   • 1654, Iames Howell, Parthenopoeia, or The History of the Most Noble and Renowned Kingdom of Naples, with the Dominions Therunto Annexed, and the Lives of All Their Kings, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], page 37; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

     Great God restore us our liberties, / With our ancient Laws and Customes, / Under the Iron yoak of Usurpators, / And lead us not

   • 1885–1886, H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky, “The Souls of the Stars – Universal Heliolatry”, in David Reigle, editor, The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript: The 1885-1886 Version with the Stanzas of Dzyan and H.P.B.’s Accompanying Commentaries, Cotopaxi, Colo.: Eastern School Press, published 2014, →ISBN, volume I (History of Some Great Occultists), page 99:

     [“]It would thus amount to a gross mistake to see merely errors in the angelology of the Kabalists and Gnostics, so severely treated by the Apostle of Nations” explains the Marquis de Mirville now coquetting with those whom he generally designates “as demon-worshippers.” — [“]For his (Paul’s) imposing censure reached only their exaggerations, vicious interpretations, and what is more, the application of those handsome (beaux) titles, to the miserable personnel of DEMONIACAL USURPATORS.

   • 2008, Aarnoud van der Deijl, Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Studia Semitica Neerlandica; 51), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 42:

     It was because Esarhaddon was stronger than his brothers that his brothers went down in history as usurpators. Had the power relations been different, the titles would also have been assigned accordingly. It is striking that the expression ‘a king who trusts in his own strength’ is also used for usurpators.

Related terms

• usurpatrix

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

usurpator m (plural usurpatoren or usurpators, diminutive usurpatortje n, feminine usurpatrix)

1. usurper

Synonyms

• (usurper): machtsovernemer

Related terms

• usurperen
• usurpatie

Latin

Verb

ūsūrpātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ūsūrpō

References

• “usurpator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Noun

usurpator c

1. a usurper

Declension

Declension of usurpator
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	usurpator	usurpatorn	usurpatorer	usurpatorerna
Genitive	usurpators	usurpatorns	usurpatorers	usurpatorernas

Related terms

• usurpation
• usurpera

References

• usurpator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)