D defs.my
Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Appropriate

/əprō'priĭt/ · Ap·pro·pri·ate · IPA /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
01 a. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
  1. 1.
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
    “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.
02 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.
imp. & p. p. Appropriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    To make suitable; to suit.[Archaic]
  4. 4.
    To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.(Eng. Eccl. Law)
03 n. A property; attribute.
  1. 1.
    A property; attribute.[Obs.]