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▪ I. misaˈppropriate, a. rare.
[mis-1 7.]
Inappropriate. Hence misaˈppropriately adv.
c1831Sir H. Halford in W. Munk Life (1895) 83 The disease, misappropriately called cholera morbus. 1897Smeaton Smollett x. 135 Her misappropriate use of the language of that circle is most felicitously rendered.
▪ II. misaˈppropriate, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To appropriate to wrong uses; chiefly, to apply dishonestly to one's own use (money belonging to another).
1857Toulmin Smith Parish 145 A part of what had been wrongfully misappropriated being restored. 1887Times 10 Oct. 3/3 The prisoner..had been in the habit of misappropriating fees which he received. |