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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