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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Appropriated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Appropriating}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] --Paley.
4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
appropriated \appropriated\ adjective
1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.
Syn: confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
appropriated
adjective: taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain" [syn: {condemned}, {confiscate}, {confiscated}, {seized}, {taken over}]
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