English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

Dictionary
Appromt (v. t.)
To quicken; to prompt.
Approof (n.)
Trial; proof.
Approof (n.)
Approval; commendation.
Appropinquate (v. i.)
To approach.
A drawing nigh; approach.
Nearness; propinquity.
Appropre (v. t.)
To appropriate.
Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Appropriate (v. t.)
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.
Appropriate (v. t.)
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.
Appropriate (v. t.)
To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriate (v. t.)
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
A property; attribute.
Appropriated (imp. & p. p.)
of Appropriate
Appropriately (adv.)
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
Appropriating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Appropriate
The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.