rare. [n. of action f. L. ad to + patria native country: see -TION. Cf. expatriation, affiliation.] Assignment to a native country; attribution of national origin.
1857. L. Hunt, in Athenæum, 7 July, 1883, 16/2. Just resumers of the rights in the Portuguese sonnets, the appatriation of which (what is the proper word?) I always grudged them.
