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(1):
(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.
(2):
(a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
(3):
(v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
(4):
(n.) A property; attribute.
(5):
(v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
(6):
(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.