Part 328

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.

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.

Ap*pro"pri*ate (&?;), n. A property; attribute. [Obs.]

Ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

Ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n. The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.

Ap*pro`pri*a"tion (&?;), 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.

2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.

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.

Ap*pro"pri*a*tive (&?;), a. Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.

Ap*pro"pri*a`tor (&?;), n. 1. One who appropriates.

2. (Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

Ap*prov"a*ble (&?;), a. Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.

Ap*prov"al (&?;), n. Approbation; sanction.

A censor . . . without whose approval n&?; capital sentences are to be executed. Temple.

Syn. -- See Approbation.

Ap*prov"ance (&?;), n. Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.

Ap*prove" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approved (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Approving.] [OE. aproven, appreven, to prove, OF. aprover, F. approuver, to approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, prove. See Prove, and cf. Approbate.] 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.]

Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve First thy obedience. Milton.

2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson.

He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay.

'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron.