† approprietary Obs. rare.
[f. appropriate, after proprietary, but with no corresponding derivation; L. appropriāre could only have given appropriatory.]
= appropriator 2.
| 1547 Injunc. Edw. VI in Cardwell Docum. Ann. (1839) I. 9 The Charges..shall be ratably borne between the parson and approprietary and parishioners. a 1641 Spelman Tithes 141 (R.) The perpetual incumbent, which is the approprietary. |