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, Document. Ann. (1839), I. 9. The Charges … shall be ratably borne between the parson and approprietary and parishioners.
a. 1641. Spelman, Tithes, 160 (R.). The perpetual Incumbent (which is the Approprietary).
