单词 | appropriation |
释义 | appropriationn. 1. The making of a thing private property, whether another's or (as now commonly) one's own; taking as one's own or to one's own use; concrete the thing so appropriated or taken possession of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > appropriation appropriation1393 propriation1602 appropriating1611 impatronization1611 impropriation1614 propriatinga1631 pocketing1638 picking1642 self-assumptiona1658 assumption1754 conscription1814 mopping-up1909 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > exclusive appropriation1393 propriation1601 appropriating1611 impropriation1614 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 240 I wolde..Of other mannes love iwis..Have made appropriation. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋172 In dying men..there is an application of medicines, but not an appropriation. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 494 When God, my God, with confidence they call, Appropriation makes amends for all. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. iii. §1. 252 To employ labour in the production or appropriation of a commodity. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §1. 7 The rapacious appropriation of the abbey lands. 2. Ecclesiastical. The transference to a monastic house, or other corporation, of the tithes and endowments intended for the maintenance of religious ordinances in a parish; concrete the benefice or tithes so appropriated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > impropriation > transference of appropriationc1370 appropringc1380 improperation1502 impropriation1578 propriation1601 c1370 J. Wyclif Against Begging Friers (1608) 14 This appropriation is made by false suggestion that such religious men han not enough for lifelode. a1641 H. Spelman Tithes too Hot to be Touched (1646) 152 In old time whilest these Churches were in the Clergy-hand, they were called Appropriations. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §811. 363 If a man bee bounden for to appropriate a Church..and before the appropriation a pension is graunted out of the same. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. 495 To meet it by buying up the appropriations of livings. 3. The assignment of anything to a special purpose; concrete the thing so assigned, esp. a sum of money set apart for any purpose. Appropriation Bill n. a Bill in Parliament, allotting the revenue to the various purposes to which it is to be applied. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > to a specific purpose appointing1520 appropriating1611 appropriation1789 1789 Const. U.S. i. §9 No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. §2. 73 The consequent appropriation of particular individuals to particular employments. 1858 A. W. Fonblanque How we are Governed vii The resolutions in the Committee of Supply are embodied into what is called the Appropriation bill. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic privilegec1225 distinctionc1374 propertyc1390 tachea1400 pointa1425 specialty?a1425 difference?c1425 conditionc1460 markc1522 touch1528 specialty1532 differentia1551 character?1569 formality1570 particularity1585 peculiar1589 accent1591 appropriation1600 characterism1603 peculiarity1606 resemblance1622 propera1626 speciality1625 specificationa1631 appropriament1633 characteristic1646 discrimination1646 diagnostic1651 characteristical1660 stroke1666 talent1670 physiognomya1680 oddity1713 distinctive1816 spécialité1836 trait1864 flavour1866 middle name1905 discriminant1920 discriminator1943 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > fact of belonging to a particular thing or person > making proper to a thing or person appropriation1600 impropriation1614 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 40 He makes it a great appropriation to his owne good parts that he can shoo him [sc. his horse] himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden Introd. A Table of the Appropriations shewing for what part every Plant is medicinable. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. ii. 190 The particular Name that belongs to every one [thing], with its peculiar appropriation to that Idea. Draft additions October 2001 Art (originally U.S.). The practice or technique of reworking the images or styles contained in earlier works of art, esp. (in later use) in order to provoke critical re-evaluation of well-known pieces by presenting them in new contexts, or to challenge notions of individual creativity or authenticity in art. ΚΠ 1895 J. La Farge Considerations on Painting vi. 208 Confusion in the work of art of methods belonging to different memorial systems..—a blot in the logical balanced world of art, usually brought about by appropriation of the works of others. 1908 F. Simmonds & G. W. Chrystal tr. J. Meier-Graefe Mod. Art I. ii. 227 Géricault was familiar with Goya's pictures... Courbet gave the determining impulse, when he brought about a new and rich development by the resolute appropriation of the Spaniards. 1960 E. Panofsky Renaissance & Renascences in Western Art (1969) iv. 170 The main group of Donatello's relief..derives from a Pentheus sarcophagus..: the appropriation of a representational type for a purpose diametrically opposed to its original significance. 1985 Arts Mag. Dec. 106/1 Art appropriation continues, and painters, sculptors, and architects who borrow from previous styles or images thus comment on contemporary issues in the arts. 1997 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 25 May g6 Russell Connor's ‘The Kidnapping of Modern Art by the New Yorkers’..is a witty, nicely painted merger of Rubens' ‘The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus’ and Picasso's ‘Les demoiselles d'Avignon’. But it is also a strained contrivance, a painting hamstrung and harried by the endless possibilities of appropriation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1370 |
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