Appropriate
Appropriate ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, from proprius one's own, proper. See Proper.]
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
In its strict and appropriate meaning.
Appropriate acts of divine worship.
It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
Appropriate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
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. Ecclesiastical Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. — Blackstone
Appropriate ({not transcribed}) , noun
A property; attribute. [Obsolete]