appropriative

[Eng. appropriate; -ive. ] Appropriating; involving the appropriation of something. ( McCulloch.) fication. "He need but be furnished with verses of sacred Scripture; and his system, that has appropriated them to the orthodoxy of his church, makes them immediately irrefragable arguments."-Locke. B. Technically : Laro: To annex the fruits of a benefice to a spiritual corporation. [APPROPRIATION, B., 1.] "Before Richard II., it was lawful to appropriate the whole fruits of a benefice to any abbey, the house finding one to serve the cure."- Ayliffe .