Definition of appropriate

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Appropriate (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..

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Misappropriate :: Misappropriate (v. t.) To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
Season :: Season (v. t.) To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.
Patent :: Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines..
Property :: Property (v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.
Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Convenient :: Convenient (v. i.) Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
Mourning :: Mourning (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like..
Private :: Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer..
Convert :: Convert (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
Farcical :: Farcical (a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
Library :: Library (n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.
Epithet :: Epithet (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn..
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short..
Titular :: Titular (a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince..
Aphasy :: Aphasy (n.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
Behindhand :: Behindhand (adv. & a.) In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work..
Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..
Room :: Room (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat..
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