English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Appromt
(v. t.)
To quicken; to prompt.
Approof
(n.)
Trial; proof.
Approof
(n.)
Approval; commendation.
Appropinquate
(v. i.)
To approach.
Appropinquation
(n.)
A drawing nigh; approach.
Appropinquity
(n.)
Nearness; propinquity.
Appropre
(v. t.)
To appropriate.
Appropriable
(a.)
Capable of being appropriated, set apart,
sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
Appropriament
(n.)
What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar
qualification.
Appropriate
(a.)
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.
Appropriate
(n.)
A property; attribute.
Appropriated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Appropriate
Appropriately
(adv.)
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly;
properly.
Appropriateness
(n.)
The state or quality of being appropriate;
peculiar fitness.
Appropriating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Appropriate
Appropriation
(n.)
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.