impropriate

verb

1. To appropriate for private use.

   obsolete, transitive

   And for the Pardon of the rest, that had stood against the King; the King, upon a second advice, thought it not fit it should pass by Parliament, the better (being matter of Grace) to impropriate the Thanks to himself […]

2. In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.

   transitive

Where it comes from

From Medieval Latin impropriātus, past participle of impropriāre (“to take as one's own, appropriate”), from Latin in- + proprius (“one's own”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impropriate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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