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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

appropriated \appropriated\ adj. 1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public authority. Syn: confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appropriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating.] 1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. [1913 Webster] 2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy. [1913 Webster] 3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] --Paley. [1913 Webster] 4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]