expropriate (ekspropriat)

t.; pret. and pp. expropriated, ppr. expropriating. [ It. espro priare = Sp. expropiar = Pg. expropriar = F. exproprier, > Dan. expropriere = Sw.expropriera ), When you have resigned, or rather consigned, your ex propria ted will to God. Boyle, Seraphic Love. 2. To take or condemn for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner. A Republican Ministry thinks itself quite conservative when it pleads that to expropriate mines for the benefit of miners would be burdensome to the State, because of the compensations such a proceeding would involve. Spectator , No. 3018, p. 572. Hence-3. To dispo e ; exclude, in general. Women, once more like the labourers, have been ex propria ted as to their rights as human beings, just as the labourers were expropriated as to their rights as producers. Westminster Rev., CXXV. 213. It has been urged as a justification for expropriating savages from the land of new colonies that tribes of hunters have really no moral right to property in the soil over which they hunt. H. Sidgwick , Methods of Ethics, p. 251, note. = expropriation (eks-pro-pri-ā'shon), n. [= F. expropriation Sp. expropiacion = Pg. expro- priação = It. espropriazione , expro- priatio ( n- ), expropriare : see expropriate .] 1. The act of expropriating, or discarding appro- priation or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property. [Rare.] expropriation pacity; for it is the evacuation of all self-sufficiency that attract eth a replenishment from that Divine plenitude. W. Montague, Devoute E ays (1648), i. 342. 2. The act of taking for public use upon providing compensation; condemnation by right of eminent domain. 3. The act of dispo e ing an owner, either wholly or to a limited extent, of his property or proprietary rights. Perpetuity of tenure on the part of the tenant would be the virtual expropriation of the landlord. Gladstone. There is no theory of socialism thought of at present, so far as we know, in which questions of property do not occupy the first place, and the expropriation of the hold ers of property does not really lie at the foundation of the system or systems. Woolsey , Communism and Socialism, p. 13.