obsolete: set apart for a particular use or person
(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
(transitive, UK, ecclesiastical, law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
suitable to social situation
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to the occasion.
To set apart for
(transitive) 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."
Law: To annex
(transitive) 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.
To take to one's self in exclusion of others
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
(transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.
