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appropriate
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)
- 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
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (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.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (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
- feminine plural of appropriato
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expedient
English
Etymology
From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient”), from ex (“out”) + p?s (“foot, hoof”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?spi?di.?nt/
Adjective
expedient (comparative more expedient, superlative most expedient)
- Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
- a. 1863, Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
- Nothing but the right can ever be the expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
- a. 1863, Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
- Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
- Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
- (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
- a 1623, Shakespeare, King John, Act II, scene i, lines 57–61:
- the adverse winds / Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time / To land his legions all as soon as I; / His marches are expedient to this town / His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
- a 1623, Shakespeare, King John, Act II, scene i, lines 57–61:
Synonyms
- advisable, desirable, judicious, politic, prudent, tactical, wise
Related terms
Translations
Noun
expedient (plural expedients)
- A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
- He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 709:
- Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
Translations
Further reading
- expedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expedient at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedient”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin expedi?ns.
Adjective
expedient (masculine and feminine plural expedients)
- expedient, convenient
Noun
expedient m (plural expedients)
- file, record, dossier
Derived terms
- expedientar
Further reading
- “expedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Verb
expedient
- third-person plural future active indicative of expedi?
Romanian
Etymology
From French expédient.
Noun
expedient n (plural expediente)
- expedient
Declension
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