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. 

Many English translators early chose "appropriation" or "appropriative event" to render this special sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help get tranny-alert.com taken down! « Bound, Not Gagged] Reference

This may be a rudimentary understanding of appropriative art in general or maybe just a populist understanding?.    From Wordnik.com.  [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference

I don't usually attend poetry sessions but there's one on "appropriative poetry" that sounds kind of interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Peachy] Reference

How and why not to ask a Native professor to come in and talk to your 8th grade class about the book they just read by an appropriative white author.    From Wordnik.com.  [...whut?] Reference

While this appropriative act corresponds in fascinating ways with Mary Robinson's blurring of the fictional/factual interplay in her various stage and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

Where we're talking about a particular type of appropriative act I think we would be better served finding a more specific descriptor for what's going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Appropriation] Reference

Freedom of speech is interactive and appropriative; it involves continuous exchange and influence between people and it builds on cultural materials that lay to hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

How do I justify any sort of misuse of sacred cultural products and aesthetic forms, whether it be cross-cultural or intra-cultural, appropriative or not, if I accept the very idea of a sacred domain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sacred Domain] Reference

Her self-representations are carefully framed to point to the appropriative nature of men's discourse on women; they remind us that the image you see is one marketed by men who deploy women for their own purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)] Reference

As a result, it has the incidental effect of stifling the vast majority of appropriative forms of artistic expression and social commentary, regardless of the social import and regardless of how creative a work is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copyright Law, Freedom of Expression and Canwest v. Horizon : Law is Cool] Reference

I think Jason's right that what I'm doing is identifying what the ludologists have called "narratology" as being something else entirely--really as being what I would call "the bad appropriative mode of cultural studies and literary criticism".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Cf. a passage Eileen cited here: Claustrophilia . . . names the love that lights up a body, building, or book, from within, acknowledging what is discrete and irreconcilable in the beloved as the effect of one's own appropriative, organizing gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Congress intended to put an end to the chaos by essentially providing for a quiet title suit that would quantify and assign priorities to all claims for the use of water, whether based on state or federal law, or appropriative or riparian principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [�By The Honorable Gale Norton] Reference

He tucks her hand in the most delightfully genial, appropriative fashion under his arm, and with a beaming nod to Mr. Browne (he never forgets to be civil to anybody) hurries Joyce out of the room, leaving the astute Dicky gazing after him with mingled feelings in his eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

Literature is not properly productive, but reproductive; not creative, but appropriative.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

Cats on Bowery, a display of ephemera and mockumentary film footage from its appropriative revival of.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Let There Be Love," by contrast, gets appropriative, being based on a couple of tiny Bee Gees samples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cokemachineglow.com] Reference

Borrowed from a 1949 Rothko work, the title of this show, "No. 3/No. 13," suggests her appropriative method.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Feminist discussion about how trans women experience childhood is appropriative, dominating, cissexist, and erasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questioning Transphobia] Reference

Riparian rights govern the consumptive USE of water, as do appropriative water rights (the type we have in Colorado).    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

However, literary critics are everywhere busy making, sometimes very esoteric, interpretations of more canonical appropriative texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The HUMLab blog] Reference

This paper considers the parallel courses of appropriative writers and literary critics using fan fiction as an example of a hybrid form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The HUMLab blog] Reference

Not sure why no one else seems to be thrilling to this bit of re-appropriative genius yet; as I write this, a one hit, and it's a snarky one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

The ability to NON-consumptively use surface water in natural waterbodies is not governed by any riparian or prior appropriative water rights system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Rather, appropriative rights are established based on the order in time when the claim and the diversion was first made ( "first in time, first in right").    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

They are not only secretive, appropriative, selfish, and self-defensive, but when redundant are aggressive and tend to destructiveness, the gratification of animal indulgence, intemperance, and debauchery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

It imparts to the reader an appropriative power, a force of affinity, by which he insensibly and unconsciously attracts to himself all that has a near or even a remote relation to the end for which he reads.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference

Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

One of the reasons for the traditionally ethnographic or psychological, as opposed to literary, approach to fan fiction may be that fan fiction is a form of derivative or appropriative fiction which is traditionally considered of little literary merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The HUMLab blog] Reference

Sunday dinner, she asked her new cousin innumerable questions, showing an intense curiosity as to Bannisdale and the Helbecks, a burning desire to know whether Laura had any money of her own, or was still dependent upon her stepmother, and a joyous appropriative pride in Miss Fountain's gentility and good looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I] Reference

STRANGER: Then now, Theaetetus, his art may be traced as a branch of the appropriative, acquisitive family — which hunts animals, — living — land — tame animals; which hunts man, — privately — for hire, — taking money in exchange — having the semblance of education; and this is termed Sophistry, and is a hunt after young men of wealth and rank — such is the conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

P 8 science are, moreover, capable of being reciprocally fructified by means of the appropriative forces by which they are endowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

(leftovers, the meal-in-itself, the cookbook), there must be or must have been shopping, an appropriative act in which the awful and vertiginous existential freedom of the for-itself is primordially manifest. save the cricket in the eaves, insomniac twitch of limbs - unyielding, cardiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Via Negativa] Reference

Still, if Lewis's last record of original material, City & Eastern Songs, was drenched in a manic urban claustrophobia (the title itself an appropriative reversal of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference

'appropriative' challenges to the supposedly ironclad discourses of Hollywood cinema - was already inherent within any given film, "writes Nenette and Boni as defining her particular brand of brilliance, which merges hyperstylized formalism with gentle realism to create something at once tactile and relaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference