To set apart for, or assign to a particular use, in exclusion of all other uses; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.

To take to one’s self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right. Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

To make peculiar; as, to appropriate names to ideas.

To sever an ecclesiastical benefice, and annex it to a spiritual corporation, sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living.

Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; set apart for a particular use or person; as, religious worship is an appropriate duty to the Creator.

Most suitable, fit or proper; as, to use appropriate words in pleading.