| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To release from individual ownership or possession.[Websters]
2. To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: disappropriating, disappropriated, disappropriates, disappropriater, disappropriaters, disappropriatingly and disappropriatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb disappropriately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (disappropriately) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective disappropriate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DISAPPROPRIATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISAPPROPRIATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Not appropriated, or not having appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe and tithes are severed. The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways. | 2: [Verb] 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. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
