Definition of Appropriates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of appropriate) ¹

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Definition of Appropriates

1. appropriate [v] - See also: appropriate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriates

approof
approofs
appropinquate
appropinquation
appropinquity
approportionate
appropriabilities
appropriability
appropriable
appropriament
appropriaments
appropriate
appropriated
appropriately
appropriateness
appropriates
appropriatin'
appropriating
appropriation
appropriation bill
appropriationist
appropriations
appropriative
appropriativeness
appropriator
appropriators
approprinquated
approprinquates
approprinquating
approvable

Literary usage of Appropriates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"towns over that if the town appropriates an equal amount over and above its average road expenditure. Appropriating $25000 annually for ten years for the ..."

2. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1893)
"3, 1803. 123. For the examination and allowance of certain awards made by a board of claims to certain citizens of Jefferson County, Kentucky. (Appropriates ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... ed people was exalted to reign over their conquer- restore* and *. __ ° appropriates ors. ... appropriates ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
""It is claimed, however, that the deed is fraudulent and void on its face—(1) because it appropriates partnership assets to the payment of individual debts ..."

5. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"'s Will—George IV. appropriates the late King's Personal Property—The Duke of Wellington on the Congress of Verona and on the Politics of ..."

6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Congress Appropriates One Thousand Dollars in Specie to Further Discoveries. Philad. 2d Decem'r 1778. Sir, I deliver'd Congress the Depositions your ..."

7. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1903)
"line planes, found underneath the surface of the prior location, will belong to a subsequent locator who, by a regular valid location, appropriates such ..."

8. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, George Stevens Allnutt (1863)
"Where a poison finds a puree of money on the high road and appropriates it to his own use, the question for the jury is, whether he does it at the time of ..."

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