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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1508, 1560-1671
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Appropriat(e, p.p. [L. appropriātus, p.p. of appropriāre, as also e.m.E. appropriate (1525).] Appropriated; appropriate.1508 Red Bk. Menteith II. 308 (that the landis beis appropriat to our souerane). 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 143/33 (crueltie is appropriat to eldering knichtis). 1562-3 Winȝet I. 115/2 (thingis translatit and appropriat in prophane vseis). a1578 Pitsc. I. 412/10 (sic power was to hir appropriat). 1622-6 Bisset I. 306/24 (it aucht to be appropriate in his handis). 1671 Aberd. B. Rec. 277 (which was never appropriat to ane burial place).
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