appropriator

English

Etymology

From appropriate +‎ -or.

Noun

appropriator (plural appropriators)

1. A person who appropriates something.
   • 1691, chapter 16, in An End of Doctrinal Controversies‎, London: John Salusbury, page 202:

     […] God is Love, and Christ is the Saviour of the World, and the Pharisaical Appropriators of Mercy and Salvation, do seldom know what spirit they are of.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/VanityFairNovel1848/page/n469/mode/1up?q=appropriator 396/mode/1up page 396]:

     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.

   • 2016 August 31, Jathan Sadowski, “Companies are making money from our personal data–but at what cost?”, in The Guardian:

     It is a remarkable victory for the data appropriators that acquiescence has become the standard model for obtaining “consent”.

2. The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice.
   • 1635, Church of Ireland, Constitutions, and Canons Ecclesiasticall‎, Dublin: XXXVII, page 52:

     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.

Derived terms

• cultural appropriator

Translations

a person who appropriates something

Polish: przywłaszczyciel kulturowy m, przywłaszczycielka kulturowa f Portuguese: apropriador m