Word Meanings - APPROPRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appropriate. Fuller.

APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
APPROPRIATE
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
FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
APPROPRIATELY
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
UNAPPROPRIATE
1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
DISAPPROPRIATE
Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
MISAPPROPRIATE
To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
UNAPPROPRIATED
1. Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton. 2. Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands. 3. Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as,
INAPPROPRIATE
Not instrument ; not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.