Definition of "appropriator"
appropriator
noun
plural appropriators
A person who appropriates something.
Quotations
He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice.
Quotations
And as for those Churches where all the Tythes both great & small are taken by the Appropriator, Wee ordaine that the Bishop of the Diocesse according to the Lawes of the Church shall allot out of the said appropriation, such maintenance to a sufficient Curate, as in equitie in his discretion shall seeme meete and competent.
1635, Church of Ireland, Constitutions, and Canons Ecclesiasticall, Dublin: XXXVII, page 52