usurpature

English

Noun

usurpature (usually uncountable, plural usurpatures)

  1. (archaic) usurpation
    • Robert Browning
      God's gold just shining its last where that lodges,
      Palled beneath man's usurpature.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for usurpature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Participle

ūsūrpātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of ūsūrpātūrus
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