ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not allocated or assigned to a special person, thing, or purpose.
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope, I. iii. 147. Ovid could not restrain the luxuriancy of his genius … from wandering with an endless variety of flowery and unappropriated similitudes.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, II. 365. He has not owned to whom he was obliged; so that the acknowledgement is unappropriated to his Grace.
1806. Surr, Winter in Lond., I. 21. There remained thirty thousand pounds unappropriated, and the whole was at her own disposal.
1872. Howells, Wedding Journ. (1892), 310. She had found … certain odd corners in her trunks still unappropriated.
2. Not taken in possession by any one.
1776. Burney, Hist. Mus., I. 1. The land of conjecture, however, is so extensive and unappropriated, that every new cultivator has a right to break up fresh ground.
1796. Mathias, Purs. Lit., II. (1797), 24. This character … shall ever remain unappropriated by me.
1814. Jane Austen, Mansf. Park, viii. The envied seat, the post of honour, was unappropriated.
1884. Law Times Rep., 19 April, 230/2. A common supply of unappropriated water in deep water-bearing strata.
