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impropriate

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈprəʊprɪeɪt/

Definition of impropriate

verb

[with object] (usually as adjective impropriated)
  • grant (an ecclesiastical benefice) to a corporation or person as their property: the estates were transferred to the Crown in exchange for a few impropriated rectories
  • place (tithes or ecclesiastical property) in lay hands: the profits from impropriated tithes

Derivatives

impropriation

Pronunciation: /-ˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

Origin:

early 16th century: from Anglo-Latin impropriat- 'appropriated', from the verb impropriare, based on Latin proprius 'one's own, proper'

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