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Want of proficiency. [R.] Bacon.

Unprofitable. [Obs.]

Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.

Not prolific. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not ready. [R.] Sterne.

Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.

tances, 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.…

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.] Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

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.

In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Impropriety. [Obs.]

Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Dreams were impropitious." Sir H. Wotton.

Not proportionable. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Not proportionate. [Obs.]

To appropriate to one's self; to assume. [Obs.] To impropriate the thanks to himself. Bacon.

The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.

One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

A female impropriator.

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.