Appropriable(a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
Appropriate(a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Appropriate(n.) A property; attribute.
Appropriate(v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
Appropriate(v. t.) 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.
Appropriate(v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriate(v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Appropriated(imp. & p. p.) of Appropriate
Appropriately(adv.) In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
Appropriateness(n.) The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
Appropriating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appropriate
Appropriation(n.) The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
Appropriation(n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
Appropriation(n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
Appropriation(n.) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.
Appropriative(a.) Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
Appropriator(n.) One who appropriates.
Appropriator(n.) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
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