Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Appropriate \Ap*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Appropriated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Appropriating}.]
   1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or
      use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate
      the use of a common benefit.

   2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or
      use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a
      spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to
      appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

   3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] --Paley.

   4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual
      corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

Source : WordNet®

appropriated
     adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public
           authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway
           cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down
           the drain" [syn: {condemned}, {confiscate}, {confiscated},
            {seized}, {taken over}]