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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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