n. [ L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation. ] 1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]