appropriable

[uh-proh-pree-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being appropriated; liable to be appropriated.

Other Word Forms

• nonappropriable adjective
• unappropriable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of appropriable¹

First recorded in 1640–50; appropri(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

"That's very appropriable by the Right. But it was also about shaking up the established ideas of the bourgeoisie, which is more akin to ideas of the Left."

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The saints, we learn, are infinitely appropriable; they are meant to be citations, repetitions, at once exemplary and inherently imitable.

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Sir Samuel Romilly once proposed to alter the law of bankruptcy, and to make freehold estates assets appropriable for debts, like personal property.

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But already in 1810, the old pictures had outgrown the scanty spaces appropriable to them at Cologne.

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This enhancement of the qualities which make any ordinary experience appealing, appropriable—capable of full assimilation—and enjoyable, constitutes the prime function of literature, music, drawing, painting, etc., in education.

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