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imˈpropriated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
1. Appropriated to some person or thing. ? Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. i. 21 Italy was called so of Italus, a King in Sicily... The more impropriated names were Hesperia, because it is situate under the evening starre Hesperus: Latium..and ænotria in regard of [etc.].
2. Of a benefice or tithes: Annexed to a corporation or held by a lay impropriator: see impropriate v. 2, impropriation 1.
1661Bramhall Just Vind. iii. 37 Why did they not restore the appropriated, (or, as we call them truely, impropriated tythes) to the Incumbents and lawful owners? 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. viii. 66 A project of restoring all impropriated hereditaments to the church. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 355 The estates of the bishopric of Winchester were transferred to the crown in exchange for a few impropriated rectories.
†b. Of a person: Provided with an impropriation. Obs. rare.
1535F. Bygod Treat. Impropr. Benefyces B xi, Nowe my maisters impropriated or improper maisters..haue nat you..dystroyed these holy and godly prouysyons, made for the mayntenance of goddes holy word.
Hence imˈpropriatedly adv., by appropriation.
1847R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath iii. (1848) 64 Every thing that can enter into the category of Christianity is impropriatedly his. |