Impropriate

Quick meaning: Impropriate is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
2. Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.

Example Sentences

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 […]

Mrs. Ellen Gulſton, Relict of Theodore Gulſton, Doctor of Phyſick, a very Learned Man, being poſſeſſed of the Impropriate Parſonage of Bardvvell in Suffolk, did firſt procure from the King leave to annex the ſame to the Vicarage, and to make it Preſentative; and having formerly the Donation of the Vicarage, ſhe gave them both thus annexed freely to St. John’s College in Oxon: Expreſſing many Godly Reaſons in a pious Letter of her Grant, to advance the Glory of God to her Povver, &c.

Word Forms

• impropriates
• impropriating
• impropriated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rectory, rectories, tithes, malappropriate, misappropriate, improper.

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