2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, 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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
appropriated
adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public
authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway
cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down
the drain [syn: {condemned}, {confiscate}, {confiscated},
{seized}, {taken over}]
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