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appropriate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appropriated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating .] 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. To set ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. 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 ] take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. 2 Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. 3 Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "take possession of," from Late Latin appropriatus , past participle of appropriare, adpropriare (c.450) "to make one's own," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad- ) + propriare "take as one's own," from proprius "one's own" (see proper ). Related: Appropriated ...
Usage examples of appropriate.
Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his, and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality.
Genar-Hofoen said, slapping the Affronter about the beak-end with the appropriate degree of enthusiastic force to indicate bonhomie.
I am deeply embarrassed at the affrontery of a girl not yet nineteen pointing her finger at a man nearly three times her age, and her teacher to boot, but at the time it seemed appropriate.
God, or some one of the gods, in sending the souls to their birth, placed eyes in the face to catch the light and allotted to each sense the appropriate organ, providing thus for the safety which comes by seeing and hearing in time and, seeking or avoiding under guidance of touch.
He should have responded with one or other of the appropriate antistrophes, but he was silent.
The great secret of our success in treating this disease consists in applying appropriate constitutional treatment at the same time.
The brooms were specifically appropriated to specific contracts, in a practical, if not in a technical, sense.
Congress has appropriated the money, and which it has directed the President to obtain.
The point at issue was whether a district court of the United States was free to dismiss an action by the United States, as assignee of the Soviet government, for certain moneys which were once the property of a Russian metal corporation whose assets had been appropriated by the Soviet government.
Federal Government, whose compensation, or any part thereof, is paid from funds authorized or appropriated by any act of Congress, to have membership in any political party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government in the United States.
Congress appropriated money to pay counsel on both sides of the argument, the Court passed on the constitutionality of the carriage tax and sustained it as valid, and in so doing tacitly assumed that it had the power to review Congressional acts.
All else is now mere clothing about the man, not to be called part of him since it lies about him unsought, not his because not appropriated to himself by any act of the will.
Quality: reason has, so to speak, appropriated a portion of Reality, that portion manifest to it on the surface.
Soul to be appropriated on the lower ranges to some individual, but to belong on the higher to that other sphere?
In the second half of the decade, Congress appropriated some 98 percent of what the administration requested for intelligence programs.