| 单词 |
adrogate |
| 释义 |
adrogate, v.|ˈædrəʊgeɪt|
Also arrogate.
[A specialized form of arrogate, f. L. adrogāt- ppl. stem of adrogā-re or arrogāre, to ask or claim to oneself, to adopt one whose consent may be legally asked, f. ad to + rogāre to ask. Arrogate was formerly used in all senses, but mod. writers on Rom. Law have appropriated this differentiated form for the special sense.]
Rom. Law. To adopt a person who was at the time sui juris, or his own master, and under the potestas or legal power of no one else.
1649Jer. Taylor Great Exemp. iii. §15. 89 He did arrogate John..into Maries kindred, Making him to be her adopted son. 1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 164 There is nothing hinders, but that the English may adrogate or adopt, and be adopted..the consent of both parties is solely essentiall. 1861Maine Anc. Law vi. (1876) 180 When a Roman citizen adrogated a son, i.e. took a man, not already under Patria Potestas, as his adoptive child. 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 90 Women, being incapable of exercising parental power, could not, properly speaking, adrogate. |
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