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Disappropriate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISAPPROPRIATE, a. [dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed.
The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
DISAPPROPRIATE, v.t.
1. To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.
The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated.
2. To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.