unappropriate

From un- +‎ appropriate.

• IPA^(key): (verb) /ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹieɪt/

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• IPA^(key): (adjective) /ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹiət/

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unappropriate (third-person singular simple present unappropriates, present participle unappropriating, simple past and past participle unappropriated)

1. (transitive) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.

   to unappropriate a monopoly

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     unappropriating , and unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry

unappropriate (comparative more unappropriate, superlative most unappropriate)

1. (rare) Inappropriate; unsuitable.
2. (obsolete) Not appropriated.
   • a. 1779, William Warburton, Sermon XXXI:

     Goods, which God, at first, created unappropriate.