a. [f. L. appropriā-re (see APPROPRE) + -BLE, as if ad. L. *appropriābilis.]. Capable of being appropriated; to be fitly attributed or applied.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 274. This conceit applyed unto … the beginning of the world, is more justly appropriable unto its end.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, I. 74. Consciencious people, allow that word [create] appropriable to God alone.
1824. Southey, Sir T. More (1831), I. 136. Appropriable to other purposes.
