Usually means: Church income appropriated by layperson.
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  1. impropriation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. impropriation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impropriation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. impropriation: Wordnik
  5. impropriation: Wiktionary
  6. Impropriation: Dictionary.com
  7. Impropriation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Impropriation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. impropriation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Impropriation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. impropriation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. impropriation: Free Dictionary
  13. Impropriation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  14. Impropriation: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. impropriation: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (impropriation)

noun:  The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
noun:  A benefice, tithe etc. that has been put in lay hands.

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