arrogate

arrogate power to oneself

they arrogate to themselves the ability to divine the nation's true interests.

She arrogated to herself a certain importance.

That firm arrogated itself the right to develop this area.

He suspiciously arrogated bad motives to other people.

Presidents who have arrogated the power of Congress to declare war.See Synonyms at appropriate

This failing is basic to the now-widespread computing discipline that has arrogated to itself the slightly misleading moniker of artificial intelligence (AI).

" The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted" .

Over the coming days, the political body may arrogate to itself a metaphysical power, transforming the utterly unthinkable into hard reality.