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12 CDs for FREE (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? This great deal alone should be music to your ears. With so many titles to choose from, you?re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! Click for more details. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27986/163416/163416 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27986/163416/163416"< AOL users click here </a< \-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-/ Word of the Day for Friday March 22, 2002: arrogate \AIR-uh-gayt\, transitive verb: 1. To claim or seize without right or justification; to appropriate. 2. To claim on behalf of another; to ascribe. What's certain is that another American President has arrogated to himself the prerogative of dispatching U.S. military personnel on an overseas combat mission, disregarding the constitutional mandate that only Congress may declare war. --"Imposing 'democracy' in Haiti," [1]The Progressive, November 1, 1994 A measure to abolish or radically restrict the ability of ministers to arrogate powers to themselves would be a necessary adjunct to the list of proposals on "open government/parliament". --Mike Marqusee, "Stumped for success, New Statesman & Society, January 19, 1996 The most sinister dimension of this form of 'terror' was that it became an intrinsic component of Fascist and Nazi governance, executed at the behest of, and in complete subservience to, the ruling political party of the land -- which had arrogated to itself complete, total control of the country and its people. --Bruce Hoffman, [2]Inside Terrorism _________________________________________________________ Arrogate comes from Latin adrogare, "to take to oneself, to claim," from ad-, "towards," + rogare, "to ask." References 1. http://www.progressive.org/ 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231114699/ref%3Dnosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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