Index of English words, starting with "ap"

(1) - Appropriation (n.) 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.
(2) - Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
(3) - Appropriation (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
(4) - Appropriation (n.) 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.

(1) - Appropriative (a.) Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.

(1) - Appropriator (n.) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
(2) - Appropriator (n.) One who appropriates.

(1) - Approval (n.) Approbation; sanction.

(1) - Approve (v. t.) 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.
(2) - Approve (v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
(3) - Approve (v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
(4) - Approve (v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
(5) - Approve (v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(6) - Approve (v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.