Chapter Impressionability to Improve of I by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.

Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service,
Improper for a slave.

Shak.

And to their proper operation still,
Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill.

Pope.

2. Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common. [Obs.]

Not to be adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry.

J. Fletcher.

3. Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.

Improper diphthong. See under Diphthong. — Improper feud, an original feud, not earned by military service. Mozley & W. — Improper fraction. See under Fraction.

Improper
(Im*prop"er), v. t. To appropriate; to limit. [Obs.]

He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor.

Jewel.

Improperation
(Im*prop`er*a"tion) n. [L. improperare, improperatum, to taunt.] The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.]

Improperatios and terms of scurrility.

Sir T. Browne

Improperia
(||Im`pro*pe"ri*a) n. pl. [L., reproaches.] (Mus.) A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; — sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.

Improperly
(Im*prop"er*ly) adv. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Improperty
(Im*prop"er*ty) n. Impropriety. [Obs.]

Impropitious
(Im`pro*pi"tious) a. Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Dreams were impropitious." Sir H. Wotton.

Improportionable
(Im`pro*por"tion*a*ble) a. Not proportionable. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Improportionate
(Im`pro*por"tion*ate) a. Not proportionate. [Obs.]

Impropriate
(Im*pro"pri*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impropriated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Impropriating ] [Pref. im- in + L. propriatus, p. p. of propriare to appropriate. See Appropriate.]

1. To appropriate to one's self; to assume. [Obs.]

To impropriate the thanks to himself.

Bacon.

2. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.

Impropriate
(Im*pro"pri*ate), v. i. To become an impropriator. [R.]

Impropriate
(Im*pro"pri*ate) a. (Eng. Eccl. Law) Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

Impropriation
(Im*pro`pri*a"tion) n.