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Definition of Impropriators

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

Meaning of Impropriators 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...
- vicar also generally p****ed into the hands of lay owners, known as impropriators. Perpetual curates were appointed to the unbeneficed parishes and chapels...
- on the same basis as landed endowments, creating a new class of lay impropriators, who became entitled to patronage, and the income from tithes and glebe...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- impropriations, and by 1603, of a total 9284 benefices, 3489 were held by impropriators or lay rectors. By custom, they were obliged to maintain the chancel...
- 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...
- the Haberdashers' Company, and the governors of Christ's Hospital; impropriators, the landowners. The church, a handsome structure in the later English...
- canons had done. Instead lay purchasers of appropriated tithes, termed 'impropriators', were required in these instances both to nominate a clergyman to the...