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impropriate
verb
(tr) to transfer (property, rights, etc) from the Church into lay hands
adjective
transferred in this way
Other Word Forms
- ˌDZˈپDz noun
- ˈDZˌٴǰ noun
Word 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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