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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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 Hackwood, Frederick William
Tetnall.—A college dissolved; five prebends and a deane; impropriate to the King’s Majestie; worth 300 marks.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William
The chancel was renovated through the munificence of the Earl of Leicester, lord of the manor, and holder of the impropriate tithes.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
The poor vicars never got back a bit of the impropriate tithes; the seats of learning got comparatively little.
From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes
Rector, a clergyman of the Church of England, who has a right to the great and small tithes of the living; where the tithes are impropriate he is called a vicar.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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