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Appropriation

and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a

communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator, 2 Br. & Had.Com. 420. As to a pew in

persons, who are usually styled, by way of distinction, lay impropriators. In all appro-priations there is generally a spiritual person attached

which a vicar commonly has out of a rectory or impropriation.

Rectory, a spiritual non-impropriated living, com-posed of land, tithes, and other oblations of the people, separate or dedicate to God,...

the sees were drawn by the lay barons who had impropriated them, Ogilvie's Imp. Dict.