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1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 102 What shall be found heretofore given by kings or princes out of the publick, may justly by the magistrate be recalld and reappropriated to the civil revenue.

1824 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 9 249 The survey of the manor..was an attempt to reappropriate to the use of the manor, what had been appropriated before.

1883 Times 16 Aug. 3/1 Absentee landlords should be bought out as far as possible and their lands reappropriated to men on the spot.

1937 Univ. Missouri Stud. 12 75 The fee offices purchase their printing from their own fees which have been reappropriated to them by the legislature.

2000 R. N. Stavins in P. R. Portney & R. N. Stavins Public Policies for Environmental Protection (ed. 2) iii. 45 Revenues from these fees historically have gone to the U.S. Treasury, to be reappropriated to the park system as a whole.

1828 in U.S. Statutes at Large (1850) 4 21 Mar. xxi. 259 And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balances of appropriations for the following objects be..re-appropriated [etc.].

1863 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 19/1 That forest which has reappropriated the conquests made from it.

1864 W. Hanna Earlier Years Our Lord's Life 112 St. Matthew should revive, reappropriate and reapply that image.

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 6 451 Up to the first Christian century, religious truth was accumulated progressively, but since that time it has become a stationary ‘deposit’, to be continually reappropriated by succeeding generations.

1964 Times 5 Dec. 8/4 Mr. Tshombe, the Prime Minister, said tonight that his Government has ‘reappropriated’ all mining concessions throughout the Congo.

2002 Wasafiri Spring 30/1 Aboulela rewrites it through Sammar's thoughts, insouciantly asserting identity and re-appropriating loaded Islamicisms from the lexicon of Western intolerance.