Definition of "appropriated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of appropriate. (verb)

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• ""Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the"
• "The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal"
• "MILF seems to be a term appropriated from the pages of celebrity culture by teenage boys, men whose views of womanhood centre on one plastic image."