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usurp (third-person singular simple present usurps, present participle usurping, simple past and past participle usurped) 1  To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. 2  To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. ( 3 obsolete) To make use of.
Usurp was borrowed into English in the 14th century from the Anglo-French word usorper, which in turn derives from the Latin verb usurpare, meaning to take possession of without a legal claim.. Usurpare itself was formed by combining usu (a form of usus, meaning use) and rapere (to seize). Other descendants of rapere in English include rapacious (given to seizing or extorting what is coveted), rapine (the seizing and carrying away of things by force), rapt (the earliest sense of which is lifted up and carried away), and ravish (to seize and take away by violence).