Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-AP-PRO'PRI-ATE
DIS-AP-PRO'PRI-ATEDIS-AP-PROV'AL
DIS-AP-PRO'PRI-ATE, v.t.
- To sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use. The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. – Blackstone.
- To deprive of appropriated property, as a church.
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