unappropriate

English

Etymology

un- +‎ appropriate

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹieɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹiət/

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Verb

unappropriate (third-person singular simple present unappropriates, present participle unappropriating, simple past and past participle unappropriated)

1. (transitive) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.

   to unappropriate a monopoly

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     unappropriating , and unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry

Adjective

unappropriate (comparative more unappropriate, superlative most unappropriate)

1. (rare) Inappropriate; unsuitable.
2. (obsolete) Not appropriated.
   • a. 1779, William Warburton, Sermon XXXI:

     Goods, which God, at first, created unappropriate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unappropriate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)