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Disappropriate

Disappropriate \Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate\, a. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
--Blackstone.

Disappropriate

Disappropriate \Dis`ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t.

  1. To release from individual ownership or possession.
    --Milton.

  2. (Law) 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.

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disappropriate
  1. (context legal English) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. v

  2. To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.