2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.
3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.
APPROPRIATIVE
Ap*pro"pri*a*tive, a.
Defn: Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an
appropriative act.
— Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.
APPROPRIATOR
Ap*pro"pri*a`tor, n.
1. One who appropriates.
2. (Law)
Defn: A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
APPROVABLE
Ap*prov"a*ble, a.
Defn: Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
— Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.