impropriate

impropriate (third-person singular simple present impropriates, present participle impropriating, simple past and past participle impropriated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use.
   • Francis Bacon

     And for the Pardon of the rest, that had stood against the King; the King, upon a second advice, thought it not fit it should pass by Parliament, the better (being matter of Grace) to impropriate the Thanks to himself […]

2. (transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.

• impropriator

impropriate (not comparable)

1. Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.