Appropriator

Quick meaning: Appropriator is a noun meaning A person who appropriates something.

Meaning

A person who appropriates something.

More Meanings

1. The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice.

Example Sentences

It is a remarkable victory for the data appropriators that acquiescence has become the standard model for obtaining “consent”.

[…] God is Love, and Christ is the Saviour of the World, and the Pharisaical Appropriators of Mercy and Salvation, do seldom know what spirit they are of.

And as for those Churches where all the Tythes both great & small are taken by the Appropriator, Wee ordaine that the Bishop of the Diocesse according to the Lawes of the Church shall allot out of the said appropriation, such maintenance to a sufficient Curate, as in equitie in his discretion shall seeme meete and competent.

He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.

Word Forms

• appropriators

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appropriater, reappropriator, impropriator, accessor, repurposer, approbator.

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