verb

• (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
  "Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
• (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
  "A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."
• (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
  "Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations"
• (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
  "Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror."

adj

• (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
• (of an action or thing) Morally good; positive.
• (of an action or thing) pleasant;
  "Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do."