appropriable

American  

[uh-proh-pree-uh-buhl] / əˈproʊ pri ə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being appropriated; liable to be appropriated.

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Other Word Forms

• nonappropriable adjective
• unappropriable adjective

Etymology

Origin of appropriable

First recorded in 1640–50; appropri(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

The saints, we learn, are infinitely appropriable; they are meant to be citations, repetitions, at once exemplary and inherently imitable.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2012

But already in 1810, the old pictures had outgrown the scanty spaces appropriable to them at Cologne.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

Sir Samuel Romilly once proposed to alter the law of bankruptcy, and to make freehold estates assets appropriable for debts, like personal property.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various