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Definition of Impropriator

Impropriator
Impropriator Im*pro"pri*a`tor, n. One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

Meaning of Impropriator from wikipedia

- with former monastic lands, to laymen; whose successors, known as "lay impropriators" or "lay rectors," still hold them, the system being known as impropriation...
- only the lesser tithes (the greater tithes going to the lay holder, or impropriator, of the living); a perpetual curate with a small cure and often aged...
- designated as either a rector, or if the parish had a lay rector or impropriator, who was often the squire himself, a vicar. These roles were often filled...
- formerly paid their tithes to a religious house now paid them to a lay impropriator, but rectors, vicars, and other in****bents remained in place. Congregations...
- only the lesser tithes (the greater tithes going to the lay holder, or impropriator, of the living). A perpetual curate held the cure of souls in an area...
- vicar also generally p****ed into the hands of lay owners, known as impropriators. Perpetual curates were appointed to the unbeneficed parishes and chapels...
- canons had done. Instead lay purchasers of appropriated tithes, termed 'impropriators', were required in these instances both to nominate a clergyman to the...
- Dorchester Free School 1652 Defunct John Fettiplace of Swinbrook, the lay impropriator of Dorchester Abbey, was the founder in 1652. In 1858 the school became...
- a priory or college. In the case where the whole glebe was given to impropriators they would become the lay rector(s) (plural where the land is now subdivided)...
- after subdivision. The owners of such land are thus equally called lay impropriators or lay rectors. As far as spiritual rectors are concerned, their liability...