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applymentt (a-pH'ment),. [< apply + -mrnt.'\ 
Application. Also appliment. 
Yet there are a sort nf discontented creatures that bear 
a stingless envy to great ones, ami these will wrest the do- 
ings of any man to their base, malicious iti>i>lmi' ->it. 
H'.v,,/,,-. Iml. to Muleuntent. 
applot 
applott (a-plot'), v. t. [< ap-i + plofl, '. Cf. 
allot.] 1. Literally, to divide into plots or 
plats; plot out. 2. To allot or apportion, 
applotmentt (a-plot'ment), . [< iip/ilnl + 
-nti-nt. C'f. allntiHriit.'] A division into plots; 
apportionment, 
applumbaturet (a-plum'ba-tur), w. [< ML. ap- appoggiato (up-po-ja to), >,. [It. supi,rt,-, . j.p. 
o t-- of appoggiare (= F. ctppvyer), < ML. appotharc, 
support, prop, < L. nd, to, + podium, a balcony 
(> It. poggio = V. pui, pity) : see tippni, podium. \ 
In HiitnU; literally, supported: marking notes 
which are to be performed so that they shall 
insensibly glide and melt into one another 
without any perceptible break. 
appoggiatura (ap-poj-u-to'ra), . [It., < //<</- 
giare, prop, lean: see itppoyi/idto.'] In music, 
a small additional note of embellishment, pre- 
ceding the note with which it is connected, and 
taking away from that note a portion of its 
time. It is of two kinds: (a) short, which is played as 
pliinibiltiira,<. I i. appliiuihatiiK, pi>. <>(fii>i>lunilniri: 
solder with lead, < orf, to, + plinnlimr (pp. /<//- 
fcatiw, > plumbatura, a soldering), < plumbum, 
lead : see plumb.] A joining or soldering with 
lead. lilount. 
apply (ft-pli')i ''; P r et- and pp. applied, ppr. 
applying, [< ME. applyt-ii, appUen, aptyon, 
aplicn, < OF. aplii-r, mod. F. appliqurr = Pr. Sp. 
L. 
lieare, fold 
<r.v. 1. 
r = Pg. o 
plicare, attach to, apply, < rf, to, + pli 
or lay together: see ;<///, pHmlc.] I. 
To lay on ; bring into physical proximity or con- 
tact: as, to ;</''# the hand to the breast; to 
/'/''# medicaments to a diseased part of the 
body ; to apply a match to powder. 
'Beseech you, tenderly apply to her 
Some remedies for life. Shak., W. T., iii. 2. 
In the gardens of the old Marques Spinola I saw huge 
citrons hanging on the trees, apply'd like our apricots to 
the walls. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 17, 1644. 
2. To bring into contact with particulars or 
with a particular case, as a principle, law, or 
rule; bring to bear upon; put into practical 
operation. 
Quiutilian applied to general literature the same prin- 
ciples by which he had been accustomed to judge of the 
declamations of his pupils. Macaulay, Athenian Orators. 
3. To use or employ for a particular case, or 
devote to a particular purpose : as, to apply a 
sum of money to the payment of a debt. 
Craft against viee I must apply. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 
4. To connect or associate with, or refer to, 
some person or thing as applicable or perti- 
nent ; use as suitable or relative to some per- 
son or thing: as, to apply the testimony to the 
case. 
Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply 
Thy latest words. Shak., T. and C., i. 3. 
I repeated the verses which I formerly applied to him. 
Dryden, Fables. 
5f. To attribute; refer; ascribe. 6. To give 
with earnestness or assiduity; employ with 
attention; devote: as, , " apply thine heart unto 
instruction," Prov. xxiii. 12. 
Like Isaac, with a mind applied 
To serious thought at ev'ningtide. 
Coicper, The Moralizer Corrected. 
Every man is conscious to himself that he thinks, and 
that which his mind is applied about, whilst thinking, is 
the ideas that are there. Locke. 
7t. To address or direct. 
Sacred vows and mystic song applied 
To grisly Pluto and his gloomy bride. Pope. 
8t. To be busy about; devote one's self with dili- 
gent vigor to; ply (which see). 
He is ever applying his business. 
Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. 
Whose flying feet so fast their way applyde, 
That round about a cloud of dust did fly. 
Spenser, F. Q-, II. iv. 37. 
9t. To bend (the mind); reflexively, to com- 
ply; conform; be subservient to. 
Apply 
Yourself to me and the consul, and be wise. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iii. 2. 
10f. To visit. 
He applied each place so fast. 
Chapman, Iliad, xi. 61. 
TO apply one's self. () To give the chief part of one's 
time and attention ; dedicate or devote one's self (to a 
thing) : as, to apply one's self to the study of botany. (6t) 
To make an application or appeal ; have recourse by re- 
quest ; address one's self (to a person). 
I applied myself to him for help. Johnjton. 
= Syn. 1. To place (on). 3. To appropriate (to). 4. To 
turn, bend, direct. 6. Addict, Devote, Apply. See ad- 
dict. 
U. intrans. If. To be in close contiguity. 
2. To have application; be applicable; have 
some connection, agreement, analogy, or refer- 
ence : as, this argument applies well to the case ; 
the remarks were not meant to apply to you. 
Of the puzzles of the Academy, there Is not one which 
does not apply as strongly to Deism as to Christianity, 
and to Atheism as to Deism. 
Macaulay, Sadler's Ref. Refuted. 
3. To make application or request ; ask ; have 
recourse with a view to gain something: as, to 
apply for an office, information, etc. 4. To 
give attention ; turn the mind. 
I have been too ill and too dispirited to apply to any- 
thing for some weeks past. Mixs Carter, Letters, II. 60. 
[In all senses used with to.] 
(a) Written. 
Played. 
quickly as possible, and (h) long, which is given its proper 
length, the principal note being shortened accordingly. 
The long appoggiatura was especially used by earlier 
pianoforte composers to avoid the display of passing notes 
and suspensions. See acciaccatura. Sometimes spelled 
apoffiatura. 
appoint (a-poinf), r. [Early mod. E. also by 
apheresis point; < ME. appointen, apointen,< 
OF. apointer, prepare, settle, fix, F. appointer, 
refer a cause, put on a salary (cf. OF. a point, 
to the point), = Pr. apointar, apontar = Sp. 
apuntar = It. appuntare, < ML. appunctare, re- 
pair, appoint, < L. ad, to, + ML. punctare, mark 
by a point, < L. puncta, usually punctum, a 
point: see^oiw*.] I. trans. If. To make fast 
or firm; found; establish; secure. 
When he appointed the foundations of the earth. 
Prov. viii. 29. 
2. To constitute, ordain, or fix by decree, or- 
der, or decision; decree ; command; prescribe. 
Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the 
king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. 
Unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way : 
which he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst 
death in him and in his generations. 2 Esd. iii. 7. 
There be six wayes appointed by the best learned men, for 
the learning of tonges. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 92. 
3. To allot, set apart, or designate ; nominate 
or authoritatively assign, as for a use, or to a 
post or office. 
These were the cities appointed for all the children of 
Israel. Josh. xx. 9. 
A ship was appointed them, which ship they began im- 
mediately to fit up, and supply plentifully with all man- 
ner of stores for a long stay. Beverley, Virginia, i. 1J 6. 
The ancient [Hindu] law allowed the father who had no 
prospect of having legitimate sons to appoint or nominate 
a daughter -who should bear a son to himself and not to 
her own husband. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 91. 
4. To settle; fix, name, or determine by au- 
thority or upon agreement: as, they appointed 
a time and place for the meeting. 5. In law, 
to fix the destination of (property) by desig- 
nating a person or persons to take the use of 
an estate created by a preceding deed or will, 
conferring on the appointor the power so to do. 
Thus, a testator may give a fund to a child for life, with 
power to appoint the fund to one or more grandchildren. 
The donee of the power is the appointor, and those desig- 
nated by the appointor to enjoy the fund are termed the 
appointees. 
6f. To point at by way of censure; arraign: 
as, "appoint not heavenly disposition," Milton, 
8. A., 1. 373. 7. To provide with what is re- 
quisite; equip. 
You may be armed and appointed well. 
Shah., Tit. And., iv. 2. 
Six hundred cavalry, and three thousand musketeers, 
all perfectly appointed, entered Antwerp at once. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, III. 566. 
8f. To agree upon ; decide upon or settle 
definitely. 
She sat allone and gan to caste 
Whereon she wolde apoynt hire at the laste. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 691. 
= Syn. 2. To prescribe, establish, direct. 3. To assign, 
destine, constitute, create. 7. To furnish, supply. 
II. intrans. 1. To ordain ; resolve ; determine. 
The Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of 
Ahithophel. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. 
2. In law, to exercise a power of appointment. 
apportion 
appointable (a-poin'ta-bl), a. [< appoint + 
-abli .] Capable of being appointed or consti- 
tuted ; subject to appointment or decision. 
That external ceremonies were but exercises of religion. 
(ilil>int<ibtt : by sup-ri<ir ]>o\vt-rs. 
A'. 1C. Ii/j-iiii. Hist. Chnivh of KIIK., \M 
appoint^ (a-poin-ta'), a. [As if F., in lit. 
sense 'pointed': tea appointee.] In her., sunn- 
as nii/iiixr. 
appointee (a-poin-te'), . [< appoint + -<''. 
after F. appoints] pp. of tippiiiiili-r: see appoint . \ 
1. A person appointed. 2. In /. the person 
who benefits by the execution of a power of ap- 
pointment. See tlppoilll, 5. 
appointer (a-poin'ter), ii. < >ne who nominates, 
appoints, ordains, or settles. See nppoiiilnr. 
appointive (a-poiu'tiv), a. [< appoint + -ICP.] 
I. Of or pertaining to appointment ; appoint- 
ing: as, the appointiri: power of the President. 
2. Dependent upon the exercise of the 
power or right to appoint; filled by appoint- 
ment: opposed to eleetire : as, appointive offices. 
In 1873, the question whether the entire judiciary should 
IK) appointive or elective was again submitted to popular 
vote. N. A. Jtev., CXLIII. Si. 1 ). 
appointment (a-point'ment), . [< MK. tipni/iit- 
wciit, andbyapheresis/>oi/f-Hf, < OF. apoi nil-- 
men t, F. appointcment, decree, order, in pi. 
salary, < appointer ;: see appoint."} 1. The act 
of appointing, designating, or placing in office : 
as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable 
men. 2. An office held by a person appointed : 
as, a high appointment in the civil service. 
3. Stipulation; engagement; assignation; the 
act of fixing by mutual agreement : as, an ap- 
pointment to meet at six o'clock. 
I shall be with her ... by her own appointment. 
Shak., St. W. of W., ii. 2. 
4. Anything fixed or established ; established 
order or constitution ; decree ; ordinance ; di- 
rection; order; command: as, it is our duty to 
submit to the divine appointments. 
Wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment 
of the priests. Ezra vi. 9. 
Do you not think it was a merciful appointment that 
our fathers did not come to the possession of independence, 
... as to a great prize drawn in a lottery? 
ft. Choate, Addresses, p. 67. 
5. Equipment, furniture, outfit, as for a ship, 
an army, a soldier, etc. ; whatever is appointed 
for use and management ; accoutrements : in 
this sense generally used in the plural. 
We'll set forth, 
In best appointment, all our regiments. 
Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 
The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of 
their appointment*. Prescott. 
6. The act of preparing; preparation. [Rare.] 
Your best appointment make with speed ; 
To-morrow yon set on. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
7t. An allowance to a person ; a salary or pen- 
sion, as of a public officer : properly used only 
in the plural. 
An expense proportioned to his appointientg and for- 
tune is necessary. Chenterjield, Maxims. 
8. In law, the act of appointing or designating 
the beneficiary who is to take the use of an 
estate created under a preceding deed or will. 
See appoint, 5. Council of Appointment, in the 
government of the State of New York, from 1777 to 1821, 
a council, consisting of the governor and four senators 
chosen by the Assembly, in whom was vested the right of 
appointment to State offices and of removal from them. 
Midnight appointments, in U. S. poUtia, appoint- 
ments made during the last hours of an administration ; 
specifically, those so made by President John Adams. 
appointor (a-poin'tor), . [< appoint + -or.] 
In laiv, one who has official or legal power of 
appointment. See appoint, 5. 
apportt (a-port'), r. t. [< F. apporter, < L. ap- 
portare, bring to, < ad, to, + portare, carry: 
seeporf 3 .] To bring; carry; produce. 
apportert (a-por'ter), n. Abringer in ; one who 
imports anything into a country ; an introducer 
or procurer. 
This makes only the apporters themselves, their aiders, 
abettors, and assistants, traitors. 
Sir M. Hale, Hist. Plac. Cor., xx. 
apportion (a-por'shon), r. t. [< F. apportion- 
ner (Cotgrave), < ML", apportionare, < L. ad, to, 
+ portio(n-), portion, part: see portion.'] To 
divide and assign in just proportion or accord- 
ing to some rule; distribute proportionally; 
allot: as, to apportion undivided rights; to ap- 
portion time among various employments. 
Money was raised by a forced loan, which was appor- 
tioned among the people according to the rate at which 
they had been respectively assessed to the last subsidy. 
Macaulay, Nugeut's Hampden. 
=8yn. Dispense, Distribute, etc. See dispente. 
