·noun A property; attribute.
II. Appropriate ·vt To make suitable; to Suit.
III. Appropriate ·vt To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
IV. Appropriate ·adj Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
V. Appropriate ·vt 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.
VI. Appropriate ·vt 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.