impropriate

verb

1. (tr) to transfer (property, rights, etc) from the Church into lay hands

adjective

1. transferred in this way

Other Word Forms

• impropriation noun
• impropriator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of impropriate¹

C16: from Medieval Latin impropriāre to make one's own, from Latin im- _in- ² + propriāre to _appropriate

Example Sentences

“No matter how you slice it, both Musk and Ramaswamy are saying native born Americans just aren’t good enough. That’s a lie and a deeply impropriate thing for any government official to say,” Fox News columnist David Marcus wrote in a Thursday post.

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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.

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Impropriate, im-prō′pri-āt, v.t. to appropriate to private use: to place ecclesiastical property in the hands of a layman.—adj.

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Apparently, Thurstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, had referred to Theobald the question whether monks could legally impropriate churches and tithe.

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The End impropriate, and the Meaning low.

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