Crossword clues for appropriator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appropriator \Ap*pro"pri*a`tor\, n.
One who appropriates.
(Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a person who appropriates something 2 the religious organization that owns the income of a benefice
WordNet
n. someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)
Usage examples of "appropriator".
The impartial old Wraxall, the memorialist of the times of George III, having described a noble as a gambler, a drunkard, a smuggler, an appropriator of public money, who always cheated his tradesmen, who was one and sometimes all of them together, and a profligate generally, commonly adds, "But he was a perfect gentleman.
One of these--he had been told--was the property of his rich and wicked maternal uncle, the hated appropriator of his red-headed cousin's affections.
He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.