appropriate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
Base: appropriat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: appropriates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appropriating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appropriated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appropriated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more appropriate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appropriate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
"I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!"
Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had been his own, not the milliner's.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].
Loitering, panhandling, soliciting prostitution, graffiti writing―these activities [are claimed to] foster serious criminality. As a result, disorder in itself has become a harm that justifies the criminal sanction. By appropriating harm in this way, the order-maintenance approach to criminal justice has disarmed the traditional progressive 1960s response of "no harm."
gloss: To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
"I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," LaPierre said.
gloss: To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations
gloss: To make suitable to; to suit.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery . Picnickers appropriate the lawn and declare for the proletariat . The sheriff comes , argues with them and they depart , leaving the Sunday [...]
gloss: Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
pos: adj
examples: The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
in its strict and appropriate meaning
appropriate acts of divine worship
But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
gloss: Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
pos: adj
examples: I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the checkout that my hairpiece looked like it was falling out of place.
While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
gloss: Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
pos: adj
examples: Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
gloss: Of an action or thing: pleasant.
pos: adj
Synonyms: impropriate
steal
earmark
felicitous
fitting
suitable
Antonyms: inappropriate
unhappy
Related words: appropriation
proper
property
Derived words: appropriater
appropriative
appropriator
disappropriate
malappropriate
misappropriate
reappropriate
unappropriate
appropes
appropriately
appropriateness
nonappropriate
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