n. 1. [ agitation + propaganda. ] 1. agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists. [ PJC ]

2. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating agitprop{ 1 }. Also called agitpropist.
Syn. -- propagandist [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ agitation + propaganda + -ist. ] same as agitprop{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

n. a propeller designed for propelling airplanes.
Syn. -- airscrew, propeller, prop. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖ [ F. ] Self-love; self-esteem. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. appropinquatus, p. p. of appropinquare; ad + prope near. ] To approach. [ Archaic ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appropinquatio. ] A drawing nigh; approach. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. ad- + propinquity. ] Nearness; propinquity. [ R. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. appropren, apropren, OF. approprier, fr. L. appropriare. See Appropriate. ] To appropriate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Appropriate. ] Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If you can neglect
Your own appropriaments. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appropriatus, p. p. of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See Proper. ] Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appropriated p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make suitable; to suit. [ Archaic ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A property; attribute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.
Syn. -- confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) 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. Chitty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who appropriates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ F. à propos; à (L. ad) + propos purpose, L. proposium plan, purpose, fr. proponere to propose. See Propound. ] 1. Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tale extremely apropos. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Coprophagous. ] (Zool.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; exrement + &unr_; to eat. ] (Zool.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

n. a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prefix di- + propargyl. ] (Chem.) A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + propyl. ] (Chem.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappropriating. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion. ] 1. Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disproportioned p. pr. & vb. n. Disproportioning. ] To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shape my legs of an unequal size;
To disproportion me in every part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly, adv. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dis- + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. ] To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ex out, from + proprius one's own: cf. F. exproprier. ] To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expropriate these [ bad landlords ] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. expropriation. ] The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expropriation of bad landlords. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. out of proportion in shape.
Syn. -- lopsided, one-sided. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. lacking pleasing shape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. impropre, L. improprius; pref. im- not + proprius proper. See Proper. ] 1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service,
Improper for a slave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And to their proper operation still,
Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to be adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Improper diphthong. See under Diphthong. --
Improper feud, an original feud, not earned by military service. Mozley & W. --
Improper fraction. See under Fraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appropriate; to limit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor. Jewel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. improperare, improperatum, to taunt. ] The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impropriety. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unpropitious; unfavorable. [ Obs. ] “Dreams were impropitious.” Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not proportionable. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not proportionate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]