1. Not appropriated or assigned.
1767. Warburton, Serm., Wks. 1788, V. 513. Goods, which God, at first, created un-appropriate; and Nature threw in common to all her children.
1832. C. M. Goodridge, Voy. South Seas, Title-p. A Statistical View of Van Diemen’s Land, Giving its … Roads and Public Works, Unappropriate Land [etc.].
2. = INAPPROPRIATE a.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam., 153. With the exception of the Scriptural, and surely not unappropriate, part of the subject.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, 234. He assigned unappropriate causes.
1898. Daily News, 12 May, 7/5. He would not say that the treatment … would be unappropriate for pelvic inflammation.
Hence Unappropriateness.
1838. [Mrs. Maitland], Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 208. They had contrived with great ingenuity every possible unappropriateness that could be devised.
