usurpation
 篡奪,霸占,奪取
 U·sur·pa·tion n.
 1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
    He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him.   --Sir T. More.
    A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government.   --O. Ellsworth.
    Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States.   --D. Webster.
 Note: ☞ Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.
 2. Use; usage; custom. [Obs.]
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 usurpation
      n 1: entry to another's property without right or permission
           [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion]
      2: wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by
         force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme
         authority); "a succession of generals who ruled by
         usurpation"