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Webster 1913 Edition


Disappropriate

Disˊap-pro′pri-ate

,
Adj.
(Law)
Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become
disappropriate
, two ways.
Blackstone.

Disˊap-pro′pri-ate

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To release from individual ownership or possession.
Milton.
2.
(Law)
To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.
Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law,
disappropriated
.
Blackstone.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disappropriate

DISAPPROPRIATE

,
Adj.
[dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed.
The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways.

DISAPPROPRIATE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.
The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.
2.
To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.

Definition 2024


disappropriate

disappropriate

English

Verb

disappropriate (third-person singular simple present disappropriates, present participle disappropriating, simple past and past participle disappropriated)

  1. To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.

Adjective

disappropriate (not comparable)

  1. (law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
    • Blackstone
      The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.