A Quick and Simple Dictionary

appropriate

1. Adjective.  (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
2. Adjective.  Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
3. Adjective.  Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
4. Verb.  (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.
5. Verb.  (transitive) 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. Verb.  (transitive) 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.
7. Verb.  (transitive, British) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.