What does "appropriate" mean?
Appropriate: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.
- 4.(Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.
- 5.A property; attribute. [Obs.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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