3 entries under this word
a. [Prefix dis and appropriate, q. v.] (Law.) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
v. t. [Prefix dis and appropriate, v., q. v.; Fr. désapproprier.]
The appropriations of the several parsonages ... would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone.
v. t. [Lat. prefix dĭs and propri-are, propriatum, to appropriate, from proprius, one's own, proper.] To destroy the appropriation of; to disappropriate. Anderson.