U*surp"er (?), n.

One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.

A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. South.

 

© Webster 1913.

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