01 n. 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…
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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.
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Anything, especially money, thus set apart.“The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation.” — Macaulay.
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The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.(Law)