Appropriative


suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.:
an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper:
each played his appropriate part.
to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use:
the legislature appropriated funds for the university.
to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate:
he appropriated the trust funds for himself.
to steal, especially to commit petty theft.
historical examples

it is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history.
religious studies, sketches and poems harriet beecher stowe

ergo, the terrestrial or the life of nature ever the shadow and opposite of the divine is appropriative, absorbing appetence.
anima poet samuel taylor coleridge

adjective (əˈprəʊprɪɪt)
right or suitable; fitting
(rare) particular; own: they had their appropriate methods
verb (transitive) (əˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt)
to take for one’s own use, esp illegally or without permission
to put aside (funds, etc) for a particular purpose or person
v.

early 15c., “take possession of,” from late latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare, adpropriare (c.450) “to make one’s own,” from latin ad- “to” (see ad-) + propriare “take as one’s own,” from proprius “one’s own” (see proper). related: appropriated; appropriating.
adj.

“specially suitable, proper,” early 15c., from latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare (see appropriate (v.)). related: appropriately; appropriateness.

verb

liberate (wwi army)

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