A person to whom a benefice is granted as their property.
圣俸受赠者
Example sentencesExamples
Similar tactics could be employed against tithe-gatherers, especially when the proceeds went to lay or monastic impropriators rather than the parish priest for whom God had ordained them.
The treatment complained of is not that of the defendants personally but that of lay impropriators generally, the defendants included.
Definition of impropriator in US English:
impropriator
nounimˈprōprēˌādər
A person to whom a benefice is granted as their property.
圣俸受赠者
Example sentencesExamples
Similar tactics could be employed against tithe-gatherers, especially when the proceeds went to lay or monastic impropriators rather than the parish priest for whom God had ordained them.
The treatment complained of is not that of the defendants personally but that of lay impropriators generally, the defendants included.