\Ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F.
appropriation.]
1. 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.
2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.
         The Commons watched carefully over the
         appropriation.                        --Macaulay.
3. (Law)
   (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
       perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
   (b) 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. --Chitty.