Sir T. Browne

||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.

||

Im*prop"er*ly (?), adv. In an improper manner; not properly;

unsuitably; unbecomingly.

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