Annexed or attached to an estate as a piece of property; spec. appropriated as a benefice to a religious house or corporation (cf. propriation, n.…

spec. Of a benefice or its revenues: = impropriated, adj. 2. (See impropriate, v. 2.)

Annexed or attached (to), as a possession or piece of property; appropriated. spec. in Ecclesiastical Annexed as a benefice to a religious…

Of a benefice or tithes: Annexed to a corporation or held by a lay impropriator: see impropriate, v. 2, impropriation, n. 1.