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Webster 1913 Edition


Appropriation

Ap-proˊpri-a′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
appropriatio
: cf. F.
appropriation
.]
1.
The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one’s self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.
2.
Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
The Commons watched carefully over the
appropriation
.
Macaulay.
3.
(Law)
(a)
The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
(b)
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.
Chitty.

Webster 1828 Edition


Appropriation

APPROPRIA'TION

, n.
1.
The act of sequestering, or assigning to a particular use or person, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose; as, of a piece of ground for a park; of a right, to one's self; or of words, to ideas.
2.
In law, the severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation, sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living. For this purpose must be obtained the king's license, the consent of the bishop and of the patron. When the appropriation is thus made, the appropriator and his successors become perpetual parsons of the church, and must sue and be sued in that name.

Definition 2024


appropriation

appropriation

English

Noun

appropriation (plural appropriations)

  1. An act or instance of appropriating.
  2. That which is appropriated.
  3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
  4. (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
  5. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.

Translations


French

Noun

appropriation f (plural appropriations)

  1. appropriation