3 entries under this word

Disappropriate

Dis’ap-prō’pri-ate, a.

adjective

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.

Dis'ap-prō'pri-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Prefix dis and appropriate, v., q. v.; Fr. désapproprier.]

To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.
(Law.) To sever from appropriation or possession by a spiritual corporation.

The appropriations of the several parsonages ... would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone.

Dis-prŏ'pri-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

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.