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propriation rare.|prəʊprɪˈeɪʃən| [ad. L. type *propriātiōn-em, n. of action f. propriāre: see above. Cf. OF. propriacion (14th c. in Godef.).] 1. a. The action of making or condition of being made one's own (or some one's own): = appropriation 1. b. Eccl. = appropriation 2.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 185 By reason of more particular respects of propriation or otherwise. 1601Act 43 Eliz. c. 2 Euery Occupier of Landes Houses Tithes impropriate or Propriacions of Tythes, Colemynes or saleable Underwoods. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 191 To be one and the same united in comon without division, or propriation. 1840Act 3 & 4 Vict. c. 89 Preamble. 2. ? The action of taking in a ‘proper’, i.e. literal or strict, sense: cf. proper a. 4.
1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 65 This propriation of a metaphor, namely, forgiveness of sin and abolition of guilt through the redemptive power of Christ's love and of his perfect obedience during his voluntary assumption of humanity,..by transferring the sameness from the consequents to the antecedents is the one point of orthodoxy (so called, I mean) in which I still remain at issue. |