All 5 Uses of
appropriate
in
Mansfield Park
- So ended their discourse, which, for any very appropriate service it could render Fanny, might as well have been spared, for Mrs. Norris had not the smallest intention of taking her.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- The place of all places, the envied seat, the post of honour, was unappropriated.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord Ravenshaw offered to resign his to me, it was impossible to take it, you know.
Chpt 13 (definition 2) *appropriated = taken
- To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.
Chpt 14 (definition 2)appropriate = take
- She said little, assented only here and there, and betrayed no inclination either of appropriating any part of the compliment to herself, or of strengthening his views in favour of Northamptonshire.
Chpt 25 (definition 2)appropriating = taking
Definitions:
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(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2) (appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right