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Definition of arrogate : To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.

Synonyms:

depute, confiscate, take for granted, repeat, assign, conquer, pretend, don, capture, delegate, acquire, take, get hold of, usurp, assume, wear, simulate, presume, get into, absorb, put on, buy up, take up, seize, adopt, sequester, affect, impound, take over, strike, buy out, sham, set apart, clutch, exact, claim, bear, prehend, impute, lay claim, commandeer, accept, allot, take on, feign, attribute, give, postulate, portion, attach, borrow, specify, relieve, ascribe, put, preempt, grab, designate, appropriate

Usage examples:

• Up and abroad with Sir W. Batten, by coach to St. James's, where by the way he did tell me how Sir J. Minnes would many times arrogate to himself the doing of that that all the Board have equal share in, and more that to himself which he hath had nothing to do in, and particularly the late paper given in by him to the Duke, the translation of a Dutch print concerning the quarrel between us and them, which he did give as his own when it was Sir Richard Ford's wholly. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• To be sure, every question tormenting us would resolve itself favourably, or at least indifferently, if we did not always rush in, wildly, madly, and arrogate to ourselves such claims of authority and knowledge as would make Olympus shake with laughter. - "The Book of Khalid", Ameen Rihani.
• The writer in the Athenaeum evidently belonged to that class of domineering critics who have no literary standing, but who, like bankers' clerks, arrogate to themselves all the importance of the establishment with which they are connected. - "The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne", Frank Preston Stearns.