different between appropriate vs confiscate

English

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
• (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA^(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/

Adjective

appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)

1. Suitable or fit; proper.
   • 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster

     in its strict and appropriate meaning

   • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

     appropriate acts of divine worship
2. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
3. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Synonyms

• (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable

Antonyms

• (all senses): inappropriate

Derived terms

• appropriateness

Related terms

• proper
• property

Translations

Verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:

     Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

     Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.

2. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
3. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
   • 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"

     “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

4. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
• (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Further reading

• appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

appropriate f pl

1. feminine plural of appropriato

English

Etymology

From Latin confiscare (“to declare property of the fisc”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: con?fis?cate

Verb

confiscate (third-person singular simple present confiscates, present participle confiscating, simple past and past participle confiscated)

1. (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

   In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.

   • c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: John Waterson, 1623, Act III, Scene 2,^[1]

     We doe confiscate

     (Towards the satisfying of your accounts)

     All that you haue.

   • 1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Mu?ammad Q?sim Hind? Sh?h Astar?b?d?, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63,^[2]

     The Persian having evacuated the imperial provinces, the vizier became more cruel and oppressive than ever: he extorted money from the poor by tortures, and confiscated the estates of the nobility, upon false or very frivolous pretences.

   • 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., Chapter 11, p. 174,^[3]

     Whenever you strike a frontier—that’s the border of a country, you know—you find a custom-house there, and the gov’ment officers comes and rummages among your things and charges a big tax, which they call a duty because it’s their duty to bust you if they can, and if you don’t pay the duty they’ll hog your sand. They call it confiscating, but that don’t deceive nobody, it’s just hogging, and that’s all it is.

   • 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 46,^[4]

     They took photographs of the bodies, but these were confiscated on return to Baghdad, and orders were given that nothing was to be said of what they had seen.

Synonyms

• (take possession of or lay claim to): appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, expropriate, requisition, usurp, steal, rob

Translations

Adjective

confiscate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
   • c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act I, Scene 2,^[5]

     Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,

     Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,^[6]

     […] thy lands and goods

     Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate

     Unto the state of Venice.

   • 1642, Walter Raleigh, The Prince, or, Maxims of State, London, “Preservation of an Aristocraty,” p. 34,^[7]

     […] not to lay into the Exchequer, or Common Treasury, such goods as are confiscate, but to store them up as holy and consecrate things, which except it bee practised, confiscations, and fines of the Common people would bee frequent, and so this State would decay by weakening the people.

See also

• confiscation

Italian

Verb

confiscate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confiscare
2. second-person plural imperative of confiscare
3. feminine plural of confiscato

Anagrams

• confacesti
• sfioccante

Latin

Verb

c?nfisc?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nfisc?