Definition of appropriate

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Appropriate (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..

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Dramatical :: Dramatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid..
Orator :: Orator (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator..
Festival :: Festival (a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Temple :: Temple (v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god..
Unappropriated :: Unappropriated (a.) Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands..
Guardian :: Guardian (a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care..
Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..
Crib :: Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton..
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Impair :: Impair (a.) Not fit or appropriate.
Assimilable :: Assimilable (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated..
Rightly :: Rightly (adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Build :: Build (v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means..
Feminine :: Feminine (a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate..
Sensitive :: Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays..
Service :: Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..
Devote :: Devote (v. t.) To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames..
Smell :: Smell (n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes..
Aphasy :: Aphasy (n.) 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..
Expression :: Expression (n.) The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs.
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