APPROPRIATE Copy link • APPROPRIATEaddicere alicui aliquid (recognize it as his property): dicare, dedicare alicni aliquid (appropriate expressly to anybody, whether to a god or to a man): aliquid alicujus facere (aliquid meum, tuum, etc., facere for second and thirdpersons): aliquid alicui proprium tradere (Cic.., to deliver it to him for his own): aliquid alicui proprium facere (Hor.): sacrare, consecrare (to dedicate to a god). To appropriate to one’s self, aliquid suum facere: aliquid sibi or ad se vindicare; also, vindicare aliquid (to claim as one’s property, whether justly or not): in se tranaferre aliquid (to appropriate it unjustly): arrogare sibi aliquid (to claim presumptuously what does not belong to one): sumere or assumere sibi aliquid (to take to one’s self what does not rightfully belong to one): sibi inscribere aliquid (of giving to ones self a title or character; e.g., nomenphilosophi): occupare aliquid (of seizing anything before another who might wish to do the some): sibi uni aliquid tribuere. To appropriate to one’s self a part of anything, partem alicujus rei ad se vindicare: aliquid ex aliqua re sibi arrogare (e.g., of another man’s merit, ex aliena laude): aliquid ex aliqua re sibi decerpere (e.g., ex alicujus laude). The nobles appropriated to themselves three magistracies, tres magistratus nobilitas sibi sumsit.