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Definition of appropriate

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Appropriate (v. t.) 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..

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Fireplace :: Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built..

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

Handsome :: Handsome (superl.) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc..

Parsonish :: Parsonish (a.) Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement..

Complaint :: Complaint (n.) A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity..

Proper :: Proper (a.) Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress..

Solvent :: Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc..

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..

Appropriate :: Appropriate (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property..

Generical :: Generical (a.) Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific.

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

Unappropriate :: Unappropriate (v. t.) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly..

Picturesque :: Picturesque (a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language..

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.

Improper :: Improper (v. t.) To appropriate; to limit.

Functionless :: Functionless (a.) Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin..

Appropriable :: Appropriable (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use..

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

Devotion :: Devotion (n.) The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness..

Approve :: Approve (v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.