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DISAPPROPRIATE
Etymology
Verb
disappropriate (third-person singular simple present disappropriates, present participle disappropriating, simple past and past participle disappropriated)
To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
Adjective
disappropriate (not comparable)
(legal) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate, a. (Law)
Definition: Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate, v. t.
1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.
2. (Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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