appropriate
[adjective uh-proh-pree-it; verb uh-proh-pree-eyt]
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adjective
suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
verb (used with object), ap·pro·pri·at·ed, ap·pro·pri·at·ing.
to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
to steal, especially to commit petty theft.
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Historical Examples of appropriative
It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history.
Religious Studies, Sketches and PoemsHarriet Beecher Stowe
Ergo, the terrestrial or the Life of Nature ever the shadow and opposite of the Divine is appropriative, absorbing appetence.
Anima PoetSamuel Taylor Coleridge
appropriate
adjective (əˈprəʊprɪɪt)
verb (əˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt) (tr)
Word Origin for appropriate
C15: from Late Latin appropriāre to make one's own, from Latin proprius one's own; see proper
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