set apart for a particular use or person. hence: belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.-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.-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.-to make suitable; to suit.-to annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.-a property; attribute.