ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED; as pple. replacing the earlier APPROPRIATE, which remains as the adj.]

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  1.  Made over or assigned to a special owner; set apart for a special purpose; specially limited.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus, I. xvii. 51. The under-going of generall curses, for the generall good, which was now growne appropriated to his [Decius’] family.

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1756.  Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. I. 129. This species of relative pleasure I call Delight…. The word is not commonly used in this appropriated signification.

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1828.  Ld. Grenville, Sinking Fund, 34. To place at the disposal of the community any portion of its now appropriated taxation.

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  † 2.  Specially suited; suitable, appropriate. Obs.

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1641.  French, Distill., iii. (1651), 67. Ten or twenty drops … being taken in any appropriated Liquor.

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a. 1733.  North, Lives, II. 327. Rich liveries of the appropriated colours.

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1780.  Sir J. Reynolds, Disc., x. (1876), 9. When to correctness and perfect form is added … appropriated expression.

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