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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, n. A property; attribute. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, 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. In its strict and appropriate meaning. --Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. --Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. --Locke. 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]: appropriate adj 1: suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate" [ant: {inappropriate}] 2: appropriate for achieving a particular end implies a lack of concern for fairness [syn: {advantageous}] 3: suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing" [syn: {harmonious}] 4: meant or adapted for an occasion or use "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy" [syn: {suitable}, {suited}] 5: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: {apposite}, {apt}, {pertinent}] v 1: give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause "I will earmark this money for your research" [syn: {allow}, {earmark}, {set aside}, {reserve}] 2: take possession of without permission [syn: {seize}, {take over}]
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