Meanings
present singular third person appropries · participle present approprying · participle past appropried · past appropried
- obsoleteparticiplepastrareusuallyTo appropriate (for); to set apart.
And forasmoche as al the religiouse men , to whoos places many good benefices be appropried,[…]
a. 1532, William Warham, “Letter CXXXV”, in Henry Sweet, editor, Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Third Series […] , London: Richard Bentley, published 1846, page 302 more examples
[…] now therfoꝛe ſyth his māhead is a creature, it cā not haue this gloꝛy onely whiche is appꝛopꝛied to the Godhead.
1573 [1530], William Tyndall, “The Supper of the Lord”, in The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and R. Barnes […] , London: Iohn Daye, page 461Foꝛ aſmuch then in a Chapter appꝛopꝛied to the ſame purpoſe, I have alreadie pꝛoued by all the auncient Authoꝛs[…]
1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XXXI, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] , London: Robert Robinſon, page 330
Origin
- Latinappropriō
- Anglo-Normanapproprier
- Middle Englishappropren
- Englishappropry
From Middle English appropren, approprien, from Anglo-Norman approprier, from Latin appropriō; compare appropriate.
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