Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of appropriating to private use; exclusive possession or assumption.
- noun In English ecclesiastical law: The act of putting the revenues of a benefice into the hands of a layman or lay corporation.
- noun That which is impropriated, as ecclesiastical property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of impropriating; ; also, that which is impropriated.
- noun The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
- noun A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.
- noun The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
- noun A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.
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Examples
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The right to receive tithes was granted to princes and nobles, even hereditarily, by ecclesiastics in return for protection or eminent services, and this species of impropriation became so intolerable that the Third Council of Lateran (1179) decreed that no alienation of tithes to laymen was permissible without the consent of the pope.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The impropriation of tithes by the monasteries set an example which unscrupulous and powerful laymen were not slow to follow, with more or less pretence of respecting the forms of law.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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We went to visit Bodville, the place where Mrs. Thrale was born; and the Churches called Tydweilliog and Llangwinodyl, which she holds by impropriation.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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It was in consideration of this or of some other service rendered about this time that Elizabeth granted to Sir Henry Bedingfeld and to his heirs for ever, the manor of Caldecot, in Norfolk "with the impropriation thereof."
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They had unfortunately a reputation for avarice, and Toclive bought them off by giving them the impropriation of Merton and Hursleigh {25} for 53 marks a year.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The clergy, though willing to be relieved from paying first-fruits to the crown, were not so loyal to the successors of St. Peter as to desire to restore their contributions into the old channel; while the laity, who from {p. 240} immemorial time had objected on principle to the payment of tribute to a foreign sovereign, were now, through their possession of the abbey lands and the impropriation of benefices, immediately interested parties.
The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856
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The indolence of mankind, or rather their aversion to any application in which they are not engaged by immediate instinct and passion, retards the progress of industry and of impropriation.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Adam Ferguson 1769
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[5] Faithfulness is, when a servant is against impropriation.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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The impropriation of this town of Diseworth was formerly the inheritance of three sisters, whereof two became votaries; one in the nunnery of
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641
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Then the stream of gloriation flows in the channel of bodily gifts as might, strength of body, beauty and comeliness of parts, and other such endowments which, besides that it is as irrational as the former, is a sacrilegious impropriation of the most free and arbitrary gifts of God to ourselves, it is withal absurd, in that it is not so truly of ourselves.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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