English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Appropriation
(n.)
Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
Appropriation
(n.)
The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
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.
Appropriative
(a.)
Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation;
as, an appropriative act.
Appropriator
(n.)
One who appropriates.
Appropriator
(n.)
A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated
benefice; also, an impropriator.
Approvable
(a.)
Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
Approval
(n.)
Approbation; sanction.
Approvance
(n.)
Approval.
Approve
(v. t.)
To show to be real or true; to prove.
Approve
(v. t.)
To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; --
said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the
manor.
Approve
(v. t.)
To make or show to be worthy of approbation or
acceptance.
Approve
(v. t.)
To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to
think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
Approve
(v. t.)
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to
approve the decision of a court-martial.
Approve
(v. t.)
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show
practically.
Approved
(imp. & p. p.)
of Approve
Approvedly
(adv.)
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
Approvement
(n.)
a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with
treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a
giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The
term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as
turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence
in the United States.
Approvement
(n.)
Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and
converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord
of the manor.
Approvement
(n.)
Approbation.