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Appropriate

adjective

1.

Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc. "A funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity" , "It seems that an apology is appropriate"

verb

(past & past part. appropriated; pres. part. appropriating)

1.

Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

2.

Take possession of by force, as after an invasion. Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize. "The army seized the town" , "The militia captured the castle"

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"Appropriate" Quotes from Famous Books

... together with them, and has in them an inseparable subsistence; so that, when they are it is, and is not when they are not, and this in consequence of perfectly verging to them, and not being able to sustain that which is appropriate. For the power of increasing, nourishing, and generating similars, and the one prior to these three, viz. nature, is not wholly incorporeal, but is nearly a certain quality of body, from which it alone differs, in that it imparts to the composite to ...

— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... not exceeding the price of 7s. 6d each, which should be 'cast for by dice' on the communion table every year by six boys and six girls of the town." The vicar was also to be paid 10s. a year for preaching an appropriate sermon on the Holy Scriptures. Public opinion has within recent years caused the erection of a table on the chancel steps, where the dice-throwing now takes place, instead of on the communion table as of old. Every May 26th the ceremony is performed, and in 1888 we are told: "The ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... the disease supervened after some acute illness. The unfavourable cases are those in which there is a family history of the disease and in which the patient is young. Nevertheless much may be done by appropriate treatment to mitigate the severity of the ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various

... like the old, deserves to be treated "in no spirit of sedentary sentimentalism, but in its largest and most oleaginous entirety. It is no plan for fixing hat-pegs in a passage, nor is it a mode of treating neuralgia with treacle." How true and appropriate this is. Mutatis mutandis we may add the further statement that it is "the truest and tenderest thesis that can occupy the most calculating cosmopolite." The corporate pursuit of a granulated conglucination is perhaps the highest achievement of which ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, October 20, 1920 • Various

... appropriate and encouraging fact of natural history did not lessen the cloud upon Paul's brow, the acute Dummie Dunnaker proceeded at once to the grand panacea for all evils, in his own ...

— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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