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 ]