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Definition of Appropriate

1. Adjective. Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc. "It seems that an apology is appropriate"

2. Verb. Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

3. Verb. Take possession of by force, as after an invasion. "The militia captured the castle"

Definition of Appropriate

1. a. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

2. v. t. 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.

3. n. A property; attribute.

Definition of Appropriate

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. ¹

2. Adjective. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. ¹

3. Adjective. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive archaic) To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) 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." ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) 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. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive British ecclesiastical legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Appropriate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriate

approbativeness approbator approbators approbatory approof approofs appropinquate appropinquation appropinquity approportionate

appropriabilities appropriability appropriable appropriament appropriaments appropriate appropriated appropriately appropriateness appropriates

appropriatin' appropriating appropriation appropriation bill appropriationist appropriations appropriative appropriativeness appropriator appropriators

Literary usage of Appropriate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education (1854)
"37 53 To appropriate $713 40 for llth Ward 70 To appropriate ... 39 for Corporate Schools 78 To appropriate $2225 25 for rent of Schools 78 Recommending ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"As to the form of proceeding necessary to give the respondents the benefit of section 4254, which declares that either party ' ' May take the appropriate ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1871)
"great majority of cases in the second, a cure may be effected, under ao appropriate course of treatment opportunely commenced, the two forms of disease, ..."

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