impropriate

British  

verb

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

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adjective

1. transferred in this way

Other Word Forms

• impropriation
  noun
• impropriator
  noun

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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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Example Sentences

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impropriate

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

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

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry

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 Charles Mackie

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

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 P. Austin Nuttall

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