Which preposition to use with usurped

in Occurrences 3%

It is not an authority, at first usurped in times of ignorance, and established only by succession and by precedents.

to Occurrences 2%

inations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines, by which cunning ambitions and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp to themselves, the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

for Occurrences 2%

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

over Occurrences 2%

"One of the fathers tells us that an excommunication is null when it would usurp over citizens the right of their prince.

against Occurrences 1%

But as Henry foresaw that a crown, usurped against all rules of justice, would sit unsteady on his head, he resolved, by fair professions at least, to gain the affections of all his subjects.

in Occurrences 1%

Remodelling of the Constitution According to the Views of the Nobility Inadequate Number of Magistrates In this political positionmainly based on the senate, the equites, and the censorshipthe nobility not only usurped in substance the government, but also remodelled the constitution according to their own views.

from Occurrences 1%

In the name of his lord, Frederic, Marquis of Vicenza, he demands the Lady Isabella, daughter of that Prince whom thou hast barely got into thy power; and he requires thee to resign the principality of Otranto, which thou hast usurped from the said Lord Frederic, the nearest of blood to the last rightful lord, Alfonso the Good.

as Occurrences 1%

the likethere is none that he so universally and so long usurped as poetry.

by Occurrences 1%

The word "editor" as applied to the conductors of magazines and newspapers is rapidly becoming a mere courtesy title; for the powers and functions formerly exercised by editors, properly so called, are being more and more usurped by the capitalist proprietor.

Which preposition to use with  usurped