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Definition
seize or take control without authority
- What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night,1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — Elsinore (29% in)
usurp = seize or take control
- Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; Confederate season, else no creature seeing; Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected, Thy natural magic and dire property On wholesome life usurp immediately.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — A hall in the Castle (68% in)
There are no more uses of "usurp" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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