Meaning of impropriation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
   countable, uncountable
2. A benefice, tithe etc. that has been put in lay hands.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.”

“His first work […] attacked the impropriation of tithes by laymen and emphasised the divine punishments customarily inflicted upon the sacrilegious.”

“Bishop Richard Watson's bag of some £2,200 a year was made up from […] five other impropriations to the Bishopric of Llandaff, and two to the Archdeacon of Ely.”

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