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verb (appropriat, ing)
- (transitive) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as in: "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to suit. Archaic --Paley.
- (transitive) (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
adjective
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person.
- Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- The headmaster wondered what an measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- In its strict and appropriate meaning. --Porteus.
- Appropriate acts of divine worship. --Stillingfleet.
- It is not at all times easy to find words to express our ideas. --Locke.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- I don't think it was for the cashier to tell me outloud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
Etymology: appropriatus, past participle of appropriare, from adLatin, ad + propriare to appropriate, from proprius, one's own, proper.
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