Vocabulary : Appropriation to Approvement

Appropriation : The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. ;; Anything, especially money, thus set apart. ;; The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. ;; The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.
Appropriative : Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
Appropriator : One who appropriates. ;; A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
Approvable : Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
Approval : Approbation; sanction.

Approvance : Approval.
Approve : To show to be real or true; to prove. ;; To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. ;; To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial. ;; To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration. ;; To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance. ;; To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Approved : of Approve
Approvedly : So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
Approvement : Approbation. ;; a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. ;; Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.

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