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Usurp :: Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him..

Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government..

Regale :: Regale (n.) A prerogative of royalty.

Regalian :: Regalian (a.) Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.

Seigniorage :: Seigniorage (n.) Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it..

Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity..

Grace :: Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

Preemption :: Preemption (n.) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.

Regalism :: Regalism (n.) The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman..

Prerogatived :: Prerogatived (a.) Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege..

Prerogative :: Prerogative (n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise..

Esnecy :: Esnecy (n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Peculiar :: Peculiar (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished..

Mandatary :: Mandatary (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Prerogatively :: Prerogatively (adv.) By prerogative.

Regalia :: Regalia (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty..

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