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DISAPPROPRIATED
Verb
disappropriated
simple past tense and past participle of disappropriate
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DISAPPROPRIATE
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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