All 6 Uses of

appropriate

in

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Before going to school it had never occurred to me that it was needful or appropriate to have an additional name.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)

I found that about a year previous to my going to Tuskegee some of the coloured people who had heard something of the work of education being done at Hampton had applied to the state Legislature, through their representatives, for a small appropriation to be used in starting a normal school in Tuskegee.†
Chpt 7

granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *

appropriation = designation (setting aside for a special purpose)

First, the State Legislature of Alabama increased its annual appropriation from two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars; I might add that still later it increased this sum to four thousand five hundred dollars a year.†
Chpt 12 *

I said that in granting the appropriation Congress could do something that would prove to be of real and lasting value to both races, and that it was the first great opportunity of the kind that had been presented since the close of the Civil War.†
Chpt 13

Why you have called me from the Black Belt of the South, from among my humble people, to share in the honours of this occasion, is not for me to explain; and yet it may not be inappropriate for me to suggest that it seems to me that one of the most vital questions that touch our American life is how to bring the strong, wealthy, and learned into helpful touch with the poorest, most ignorant, and humblest, and at the same time make one appreciate the vitalizing, strengthening influence…†
Chpt 17 (definition 2) *

Definitions:

(1) (appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds)
to set aside for a particular use

(2) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate)
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation

(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture)
to take without asking -- often without right