Part 579

<blockquote>It is not at all times easy to find words <b>appropriate</b> to express our ideas. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Appropriate</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*pro"pri*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Appropriated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Appropriating</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; <as>as, let no man <ex>appropriate</ex> the use of a common benefit</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with <i>to</i> or <i>for</i>; <as>as, a spot of ground is <ex>appropriated</ex> for a garden; to <ex>appropriate</ex> money for the increase of the navy.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make suitable; to suit.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Paley.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Eng. Eccl. Law)</fld> <def>To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

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<hw>Ap*pro"pri*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A property; attribute.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Ap*pro"pri*ate*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.</def>

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<hw>Ap*pro"pri*ate*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.</def>

<i>Froude.</i>

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<hw>Ap*pro`pri*a"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>appropriatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>appropriation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything, especially money, thus set apart.</def>

<blockquote>The Commons watched carefully over the <b>appropriation</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. <i>Blackstone</i>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>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.</def>

<i>Chitty.</i>

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<hw>Ap*pro"pri*a*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; <as>as, an <ex>appropriative</ex> act</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Appropriator</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*pro"pri*a`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who appropriates.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.</def>

<h1>Approvable</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*prov"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Worthy of being approved; meritorious.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ap*prov"a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>