English Explanatory Dictionary

impropriate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To appropriate for private use.
  2. In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
adj
  1. Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.

Word forms

impropriate impropriates impropriating impropriated

Etymology

From Medieval Latin impropriātus, past participle of impropriāre (“to take as one's own, appropriate”), from Latin in- + proprius (“one's own”).

Derived words

disimpropriate impropriation impropriator unimpropriate unimpropriated
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