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impropriating

impropriating is the present participle and gerund of impropriate.

Meaning of impropriate

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To appropriate for private use.
    • 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 […]1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
  2. (transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.

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Questions about impropriating

What is impropriating the present participle and gerund of?
Impropriating is the present participle and gerund of impropriate.

Words near impropriating in the dictionary

  1. improportionate
  2. impropre
  3. impropriate
  4. impropriated
  5. impropriates
  6. impropriating
  7. impropriation
  8. impropriations
  9. impropriator
  10. impropriators
  11. impropriatrix

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