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

Etymology

Origin of impropriate

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

Example Sentences

Tetnall.—A college dissolved; five prebends and a deane; impropriate to the King’s Majestie; worth 300 marks. 

From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William

Pen.—Parsonage; impropriate to the vicars of Lichfield; worth £20; vicarage worth as much; patrons, the Vicars of Lichfield. 

From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William

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.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

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 Nuttall, P. Austin

The poor vicars never got back a bit of the impropriate tithes; the seats of learning got comparatively little. 

From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes