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adjective
Appropriative  adj.  Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Appropriative" Quotes from Famous Books



... is because this story strikes home to every human bosom as an individual concern. A thrilling voice speaks from this scene of anguish to every human bosom: This is thy Savior. Thy sin hath done this. It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history. This was for me, is the thought which has pierced the apathy of the Greenlander, and kindled the stolid clay of the Hottentot; and no human bosom has ever been found so low, so lost, so guilty, ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... patterns. With the law of the imagination we are familiar, which is this: Imagination deals only with materials supplied by the senses. Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces. Imagination does not make materials, is no magician, but is an architect. Admitting this law, we can readily see how the creation ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle



Words linked to "Appropriative" :   appropriate, appropriation



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