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impropriate
(redirected from impropriations)

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impropriate
vb [ɪmˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt]
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (tr) to transfer (property, rights, etc.) from the Church into lay hands
adj [ɪmˈprəʊprɪɪt -ˌeɪt]
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) transferred in this way
[from Medieval Latin impropriāre to make one's own, from Latin im- in-2 + propriāre to appropriate]
impropriation  n
impropriator  n
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In the late 1620s William Laud communicated with James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and effective primate of Ireland, about recovering Irish impropriations.
The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the ... by Smuts, Malcolm / Renaissance Quarterly
94) Such extortions are linked with offerings at the Hebrew temple at Jerusalem: "For not only was her Corban to be satisfied with the product of such oblations, but lands were to be set apart and sequestred, the revenue of which past first through her fingers, and were made Impropriations of her own.
Opening the queen's closet: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth Cromwell, and ... by Knoppers, Laura Lunger / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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