usurpation

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

   Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!

   1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10

   1 more example

   The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]

   a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270

2. countableuncountableTrespass onto another's property without permission.
3. countableuncountableA taking or use without right.

In a sentence

The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]

a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270

Where it comes from

1. Latinūsurpātiō
2. Old Frenchusurpacion
3. Middle Englishusurpacioun
4. Englishusurpation

From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō; equivalent to usurp + -ation.