impropriate
English
Verb
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- (transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And for the Pardon of the rest, that had stood against the King; the King, upon a second advice, thought it not fit it should pass by Parliament, the better (being matter of Grace) to impropriate the Thanks to himself […]
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
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Adjective
impropriate (not comparable)
- Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.