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impropriate
verb
- tr to transfer (property, rights, etc) from the Church into lay hands
adjective
- transferred in this way
Derived Forms
- ˌDZˈپDz, noun
- ˈDZˌٴǰ, noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of impropriate1
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.
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.
Impropriate, im-prō′pri-āt, v.t. to appropriate to private use: to place ecclesiastical property in the hands of a layman.—adj.
Apparently, Thurstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, had referred to Theobald the question whether monks could legally impropriate churches and tithe.
The End impropriate, and the Meaning low.
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