† diˈspropriate, v. Obs.
[f. dis- 6 + L. proprium own, possession, property, after appropriate, expropriate.]
trans. To deprive of the ownership (of something); to dispossess.
| 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage ii. vii. 113 Who knoweth whether those Appropriations did not..dispropriate them of that which in a juster proprietie was given them? |