Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-PRO'PRI-ATE
DIS-PRO-POR'TION-ATE-NESSDIS-PROV'A-BLE
DIS-PRO'PRI-ATE, v.t.
To destroy appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use. – Anderson. [See Disappropriate, which is more regularly formed, and more generally used.]
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