Impropriate

[imp. & p. p. IMPROPRIATED; p. pr. & vb. n. IMPROPRIATING.] [Lat. im, for in, and propriare, propriatum, to appropriate; proprius, proper.]

1. To appropriate to private use; to assume. [Obs.] “To impropriate the thanks to himself.” Bacon.
2. (Eng. Eccl. Law.) To place the profits of, for care and disbursement, in the hands of a layman; — applied to ecclesiastical property. Hook.