[ad. L. appropriāt-us pa. pple. of appropriā-re: see APPROPRE.]
A. pple. or adj.
1. Annexed or attached (to), as a possession or piece of property; appropriated. spec. in Eccl. Annexed as a benefice to a religious corporation.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1637), 145. The Parish Priests in Italy … have … certeine Farmes as Gleabland appropriate.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., Pref. The Sea’s now made appropriate, And yields to all the Laws of state.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., There are computed to be in England 3845 churches appropriate and impropriate.
† 2. Belonging to oneself; private; selfish. Obs.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. lxxxiii. Wks. 1677, 127. Policy … works ever for appropriate ends; Love euer takes a partner into the Benefit.
† 3. Assigned to a particular person; special, individual. Obs. rare.
1796. Miss Burney, Camilla, VIII. x. The end, therefore, of her deliberation was to show general gaiety, without appropriate favour.
4. Attached or belonging as an attribute, quality or right; peculiar to, own. a. absol.
1538. Starkey, England, II. i. § 25. 162. We notyd … in … the hede, an appropryat dysease, wych we callyd then a frencey.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., I. 174. That the sun darts out light and heat to the limits of its appropriate system.
1809. Coleridge, Friend (1837), I. i. 9. To charm away … Ennui, is the chief and appropriate business of the poet.
b. with to.
1525. Tindale, Par. Wicked Mamm., Wks. I. 50. The forgiveness of sins and justifying is appropriate unto faith only.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxx. 177. Honour, appropriate to the Soveraign onely.
1812. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 307. Coronet … is [a word] appropriate to rank and heraldry.
5. Specially fitted or suitable, proper. Const. to, for.
1546. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe, B j. Remedies … appropriat to every membre throughout the body.
1594. Plat, Sorts of Soyle, 56. Salts … most appropriate for the nature of mortar.
1661. Boyle, Style H. Script., Wks. 1744, II. 101/2. The Bible’s being appropriate … to make wise the simple.
1809. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 29. Two mottos equally appropriate.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq., III. xi. 47. Prayers and collects appropriate for the great solemnity.
† B. sb. [the adj. used absol.] A thing appropriated or appropriate; a property, attribute. Obs.
1618. Chapman, Hesiod, II. 551. To prophane The Gods’ Appropriates.
1642. Jer. Taylor, Episc. (1647), 102. The appropriates of their office so ordain’d by the Apostles.
