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r 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.

on of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.

To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

Inappropriate; unsuitable.

Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton.

The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.

a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.…

s from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.

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

One who appropriates.

To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.