Meanings
verbdisappropriate (third-person singular simple present disappropriates, present participle disappropriating, simple past and past participle disappropriated)
present singular third person disappropriates · participle present disappropriating · participle past disappropriated · past disappropriated
adjectivedisappropriate (not comparable)
- not comparablelawSevered from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
Origin
- Latindis-
- Old Frenchdes-
- Latindis-
- Middle Englishdis-
- Englishdis-
- Englishappropriate
- Englishdisappropriate
From dis- + appropriate.
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