impropriate

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impropriate /ɪmˈprəʊprɪeɪt/

▶verb (usu. as adj. impropriated) grant (an ecclesiastical benefice) to a corporation or person as their property.

■ place (tithes or ecclesiastical property) in lay hands.

– derivatives
impropriation noun.

– origin C16: from Anglo-Latin impropriat-, impropriare ‘appropriate’, based on L. proprius ‘one's own’.