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.

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.