impropriate
Britishverb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of impropriate
C16: from Medieval Latin impropriāre to make one's own, from Latin im- in- ² + propriāre to appropriate
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Thus, in 1622, Archbishop Ussher in a Report of Bective parish said it belonged to Bartholomew Dillon, Esq. of Riverstown, his Majesty’s farmer of the impropriate property.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
Tetnall.—A college dissolved; five prebends and a deane; impropriate to the King’s Majestie; worth 300 marks.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
The poor vicars never got back a bit of the impropriate tithes; the seats of learning got comparatively little.
From Two Suffolk Friends by Francis Hindes Groome
Wombourne.—Parsonage, impropriate, held by Hugh Wriotesley, Esquire; worth £40; vicarage worth £26; patron, Edward L. Dudley.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
Collegiate Church; impropriate to the King’s Majestie or the Dean of Windsor; value of lands belonging to it is £600 per annum.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
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