Adjective : an appropriate example; an appropriate dress. ,Each played his appropriate part. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The legislature appropriated funds for the university. ,He appropriated the trust funds for himself. From Dictionary.com.
"Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
No Name was appropriated from a French Hypermarket. From Wordnik.com. [CanadaThis Is Your Wake-Up Call] Reference
The Act enables a total of R142,42 billion to be appropriated from the National Revenue Fund. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
What if the cultural artefact is appropriated from a dominant culture by a member of another dominant culture?. From Wordnik.com. [More on Cultural Appropriation] Reference
Whatever we have occasion to think of often, and for scientific purposes, ought to have a name appropriated to it. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Mikado, origin of title; name appropriated for residence of Soga. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
38 The prefix appears to be a kind of title appropriated by saints and divines. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Here the extreme characters appear to be opposed, because the mean has no name appropriated to it. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Zero it all out except vital aides and civil servant positions, and label the appropriated money as non-fungible. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Executive Privilege and Contempt Prosecutions:] Reference
The first subject which should engross our attention, or for which the public funds should be appropriated, is education. From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
His conversation was at all times interlarded with the slang terms appropriated to the science, to which he was so devoted. From Wordnik.com. [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference
These were two titles appropriated to the same personage, Divine Wisdom; who was supposed to spring from the head of her father. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
Let him CHANGE the pose of the "appropriated" photographs. From Wordnik.com. [Shepard Fairey sues AP before it sues him.] Reference
Thus I reject the idea that it can be 'appropriated' in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Each of the religious houses of Holyrood and Kelso had the tithes of twenty-seven parishes diverted or 'appropriated' to it. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
There was not much literature of this kind as most books and magazines in that category had been banned or 'appropriated' by the students. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1 - Recruitment] Reference
"Honestly, I didn't steal the car, judge, because I called the owner after I 'appropriated' it and told him I took it for my own purposes.". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Here and There] Reference
George Washington, was "appropriated" for use by John. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
Budget items are categorized as "appropriated," meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
However, my father had 'appropriated' my 4-year-old pair of. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Mansour - Comments] Reference
Hazlan Zakaria gets round it nicely by using the word "appropriated"!. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
The song's opening guitar riff, by Carl Hogan, was "appropriated" by Chuck. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Wrong!, we have 'appropriated' 800 bill, but most of it has yet to be spent!. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
This word "appropriated" is the most orthodox I can find, but it is almost unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)] Reference
At the stumpage rate your million and a half which Radway 'appropriated' would be only three thousand. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
I was a pad's brat. 6 kids+Dad on Sgt's wages = I month of compo 'appropriated' at Endex ... happy days!!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
"I became a 'free-liver,' to make use of the picturesque expression appropriated by the language of excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
What happens at that point is that the alcohol is 'appropriated' to the sale, and this means that the sale is made at that moment. From Wordnik.com. [Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser] Reference
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