Appropriate
Ap·pro·pri·ate
Appropriate
a.
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Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
In its strict and appropriate meaning.
Appropriate acts of divine worship.
It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
Appropriate
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Appropriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating
- 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.
- 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.
- To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic]
- To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. (Eng. Eccl. Law)
Appropriate
n.
- A property; attribute. [Obs.]