impropriated

Here _were_ six if not eight parish churches: namely, St. John's, (which was a rectory, and seems to have been swallowed up by the sea about the year 1540;) St. Martin's, St. Nicholas's, and St. Peter's, which were likewise rectories; and St. Leonard's and All Saints, which were impropriated.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831 Various

Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders.

Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

Suffice it to add here that while the imperial consecration made him in theory, what he was already in fact, the principal ruler of the West, and impropriated, as it were, in the Carolingian line the majesty of ancient Rome, it also lifted

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

They were buying up impropriated tithes and gaining control of appointments to livings.

Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909

"The eastern end of the north aisle is used as a vestry, and the eastern end of the south aisle is impropriated to the church-warden's use."

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

All the fair working, and all the sweet natural office of dearworthy Motherhood is impropriated [235] to the Second Person: for in Him we have this Godly Will whole and safe without end, both in

Revelations of Divine Love 1901

The church itself was impropriated to the Abbey of Inchaffray, founded by the Earl of Strathearn about the beginning of the twelfth century, and was served by a vicar, to whom that monastery delegated the clerical duty, doubtless on the usual pittance of stipend.

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

He mentioned likewise the decay of the universities; and how that great market-towns were without schools or preachers: and that the poor vicar had but 20_l. _ [or some such poor allowance,] and the rest, being no small sum, was impropriated.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders.

Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America George Bancroft 1845

"Pratt's Gleanings," which hath damned and impropriated the title for ever.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805