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Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

Propulsive.

The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

ic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

See Propidene.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

Self-love; self-esteem.

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.

Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

art for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.

Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.