Appropriate

01 a. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

1.
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
“In its strict and appropriate meaning.” — Porteus.

“Appropriate acts of divine worship.” — Stillingfleet.

“It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.” — Locke.

02 v. t. 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.

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]
4.
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.(Eng. Eccl. Law)

03 n. A property; attribute.

1.
A property; attribute.[Obs.]