a. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Syn. -- embezzled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]