n. 1. The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Eng. Eccl. Law) (a) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation. (b) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 ]
English-Thai: NECTEC'sLexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] NECTEC Lexitron Dictionary EN-TH
(n) a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner, Example:the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit; a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest