Appropriation \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)