Appropriate
- a. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. To make suitable; to suit.
- v. t. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.