noun a property; attribute.
2. appropriate ·vt to make suitable; to suit.
3. appropriate ·vt to annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
4. appropriate ·adj set apart for a particular use or person. hence: belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
5. appropriate ·vt to take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
6. appropriate ·vt 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.