The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

appropriated \appropriated\ adj.
   1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public
      authority.

   Syn: confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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   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.
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   3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] --Paley.
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   4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual
      corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
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