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† aˈppropre, aˈpproprie, v. Obs.
Forms: α. 4–5 apropre, 4–6 appropre, -yr, 6 appropir, 6–7 approper. Also β. 4 approprie, 4–5 -ye, pa. pple. 4–7 appropried.
[a. OFr. aproprie-r:—late L. appr-, adpropriā-re (c 450), f. ad to, with idea of ‘rendering’ + propri-us own. Two forms: one (from AFr.) suppressing -i-; the other, used chiefly in pa. pple., preserving -i, -y. Superseded in 17th c. by the Latinized equivalent appropriate.]
1. To assign as private property or possession to; to set apart for a special purpose; spec. in Eccl. to annex to a religious corporation.
α1340Ayenb. 40 Þe y-halȝede stedes þet byeþ apropred to guodes seruise. Ibid. 41 Ofhyaldeþ mid wrong..þe þinges þet byeþ apropred to holy cherche. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xiv. 368 Whanne a parisch chirche is aproprid to an abbey. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. vii. 170 a, The lyght of the sonne may not be..appropred to one place more than to an other.
β1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xlvii. (1495) 484 That manere of felde that hyghte Campus is apropryed to noo man. 1587Golding De Mornay xxi. (1617) 364 A Chapter appropried to the same purpose.
2. To assign or attribute as proper to.
α1384Chaucer Gentilesse 18 His vertuous noblesse That is appropred [v.r. enpropred] unto no degree. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 27 Godd þe ffadyre to whaym is appropyrede myghte. 1508Fisher Wks. i. 205 But to lye longe and contynue in synne is appropred to the deuyll. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 67 Astrologers approper certain starres to Kings only.
β1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 8149 Þus salle endles lyfe appropryed be, Tylle þe saved bodyse. 1557Primer (Sarum) H ij, God to whome it is appropried to be mercifull ever. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 265 Capitaneus and Valuasor was also appropried to speciall Dignities beneath a Count.
3. To make one's own; to take possession of. (Orig. with refl. pron. etc., afterwards absol.)
α1366Mandeville v. 35 Kyngdomes that he hath conquered and apropred to him be strengthe. c1400Destr. Troy xxx. 12193, I haue aproprid to oure partis prouyns besyde. 1502Arnold Chron. 276 Whether ony executor..appropir ony thing of the goodis of the deed man.
β1474Caxton Chesse 77 To kepe them from appropryyng to them self that thyng that aperteyneth to the comyn. |
