单词 | impropriation |
释义 | impropriationn. 1. a. (a) The action of impropriating; the annexation of a benefice or its revenues to a corporation, office, or individual, esp. ΚΠ ?1535 F. Bygod (title) A treatyse concernynge impropriations of benefyces. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Uv Wyth impropriacions he [sc. the Devil] hath turned preachynge in to priuate Masses. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 35 Rome hath robbed Christ of his honour; and, by impropriations, giuen his patrimonie to idle fat Monkes to feede vpon. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 215 in Justice Vindicated If the Pope did give Abbots and Priors power, being Ecclesiastical persons, to make divers Impropriations to their benefit, the King will take a power to take them all away, and convert them into Lay-fees, and incorporate them..into particular mens estates. 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 265 To maintain the Sacrilegious Impropriations which the Pope had made of the Tythes of the Secular Clergy, to endow their Monasteries: which Hen. VIII. instead of Restoring, did yet more Sacrilegiously Impropriate to the Laity. (b) (in later use) to a lay corporation or a lay proprietor.By 17–18th centuries law writers distinguished from appropriation: see quot. 1708, and appropriation n. 2. Although the distinction has apparently no etymological or historical basis (cf. etymology of improper v.1), the assignment of a benefice to a monastic house, and to a layman, being alike call impropriation in the 16th centuries, the later usage has been to restrict impropriation to the lay proprietorship of tithes or other ecclesiastical revenues. ΚΠ 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 58 No impropriations, no lay patrons of Church liuings. 1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 396 Impropriation is properly so called, when the Advowson is in the Hands of a Layman, and Appropriation, when in the Hands of a Bishop, College, &c. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 273 A Bill for restoring to it [sc. the church] all that it had lost by Impropriations and other Secularizations. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 25 (note) Impropriations are the alienation of tithes to laymen. b. The proprietorship conveyed by this action. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership of a benefice impropriation1631 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 356 The Churches..were impropriated to the Deane..by diuers Bishops; the Impropriations whereof were theirs at that time. 1849 C. Stovel Canne's Necessitie of Separation Introd. p. cx An impression..that, by appealing to the benevolence of individuals, the impropriations of church livings might be purchased and put in trust for the use of such ministers as they might approve. c. An impropriated benefice; a living, tithes, etc., held by a religious house, or (in later use) by a layman or lay corporation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > impropriation improperation1536 impropriation1578 society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > impropriation > transference of appropriationc1370 appropringc1380 improperation1502 impropriation1578 propriation1601 1578 in Neal Hist. Purit. (1732) I. 367 Besides the impropriations in our shire. 1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 78 Those lawes..whereby Impropriations and Patronages stande as mens lawfull possession and heritage. 1620 T. Ryves Vicar's Plea 98 The parsonages were heretofore..granted to the Monkes in proprios vsus from whence they haue their name of Impropriations. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 167 An Impropriation which the Lord Gray of Wilton..Restored to the Church. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Northleech A free grammar-school..endowed..with the impropriation of Chedworth, worth 80l. a year. 1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lii. 105 Certain zealots had erected themselves into a society for buying in of impropriations, and transfering them to the church. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism I. 32 It required..that impropriations annexed to bishoprics and colleges be converted into regular rectorial livings. a. gen. The action of making proper or peculiar to some person or thing; appropriation; in quot. 1614, ‘exclusive possession’ (Todd). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > [noun] > exclusive possession monopole1548 engrossing1595 monopoly1610 monopolizing1612 impropriation1614 the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > appropriation appropriation1393 propriation1602 appropriating1611 impatronization1611 impropriation1614 propriatinga1631 pocketing1638 picking1642 self-assumptiona1658 assumption1754 conscription1814 mopping-up1909 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > exclusive appropriation1393 propriation1601 appropriating1611 impropriation1614 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > fact of belonging to a particular thing or person > making proper to a thing or person appropriation1600 impropriation1614 1614 W. Loe Come & See 29 The Gnostiques..had (as they deemed) the impropriation of all diuine knowledge. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 266 Is the Impropriation of some rich Beauty thy Designe? 1728 Sir J. Browne Ess. Trade 4 When..either their own Extravagance, or the general Impropriation of Things reduced any to Want, they hired themselves out to labour. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > private property several1555 private property1642 impropriation1647 1647 J. Cleveland Poems (new ed.) in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4666) 8 I never will be your Impropriation. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. Ep. Ded. sig. A8 What Nature at first laid forth in common, men did afterwards distribute into severall Impropriations. 3. The action of taking in the ‘proper’ or literal sense.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 311 The impropriation of this Metaphor—(i.e., the taking it literally). 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