impropriate
English
Verb
impropriate (third-person singular simple present impropriates, present participle impropriating, simple past and past participle impropriated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use.
- Francis Bacon
- And for the Pardon of the rest, that had stood against the King; the King, upon a second advice, thought it not fit it should pass by Parliament, the better (being matter of Grace) to impropriate the Thanks to himself […]
- Francis Bacon
- (transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
Derived terms
- impropriator
Adjective
impropriate (not comparable)
- Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.