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impropriated


impropriated


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impropriate  \Im*pro"pri*ate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Impropriated};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Impropriating}.]  [Pref.  im- 
  in  +  L.  propriatus  p.  p.  of  propriare  to  appropriate.  See 
  {Appropriate}.] 
  1.  To  appropriate  to  one's  self  to  assume.  [Obs.] 
 
  To  impropriate  the  thanks  to  himself.  --Bacon. 
 
  2.  (Eng.  Eccl.  Law)  To  place  the  profits  of  (ecclesiastical 
  property)  in  the  hands  of  a  layman  for  care  and 
  disbursement.