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.
Ap*pro"pri*a*tive (&?;), a. Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n.
Ap*pro"pri*a`tor (&?;), n. 1. One who appropriates.
2. (Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
Ap*prov"a*ble (&?;), a. Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.
Ap*prov"al (&?;), n. Approbation; sanction.
A censor . . . without whose approval n&?; capital sentences are to be executed.
Temple.
Syn. -- See Approbation.
Ap*prov"ance (&?;), n. Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.
Ap*prove" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approved (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Approving.] [OE. aproven, appreven, to prove, OF. aprover, F. approuver, to approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, prove. See Prove, and cf. Approbate.] 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.]
Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve
First thy obedience.
Milton.