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  • English Word Appropriate Definition A property; attribute.
  • English Word Appropriated Definition of Appropriate
  • English Word Appropriately Definition In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
  • English Word Appropriateness Definition The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
  • English Word Appropriating Definition of Appropriate
  • English Word Appropriation Definition 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.
  • English Word Appropriation Definition Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
  • English Word Appropriation Definition The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
  • English Word Appropriation Definition 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.
  • English Word Appropriative Definition Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
  • English Word Appropriator Definition One who appropriates.
  • English Word Appropriator Definition A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
  • English Word Approvable Definition Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
  • English Word Approval Definition Approbation; sanction.
  • English Word Approvance Definition Approval.
  • English Word Approve Definition To show to be real or true; to prove.
  • English Word Approve Definition To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
  • English Word Approve Definition To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
  • English Word Approve Definition To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
  • English Word Approve Definition To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
  • English Word Approve Definition To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
  • English Word Approved Definition of Approve
  • English Word Approvedly Definition So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • English Word Approvement Definition Approbation.
  • English Word Approvement Definition a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States.
  • English Word Approvement Definition Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
  • English Word Approver Definition One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.
  • English Word Approver Definition An informer; an accuser.
  • English Word Approver Definition One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.
  • English Word Approver Definition A bailiff or steward; an agent.