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APPLI'ANCE,y. Theaft of applying; the thing applied: 
Difeafes defp'rate grown 
By defperate appliance are reliev’d. Shake/peare. 
APPLICABILITY,^ The quality of being fit to be 
applied to fomething.—The action of cold is compofed 
of two parts; the one preffing, the other penetration, 
which require applicability. Digby. 
APPLICABLE, adj. That whicli may be applied, as 
properly relating to fomething.—What he fays of the por¬ 
trait of any particular perfon, is applicable to poetry. In 
the character, there is a better or a worfe likenefs ; the 
better is a panegyric, and the worfe a libel. Dryden. 
A P'PLIC ABLENESS, f. Fitnefs to be applied.—The 
knowledge of falls may poffibly, by that little part which we 
have already delivered of its applicablcnefs , be of ufe in na¬ 
tural philofophy. Boyle. 
AP'PLICABLY, adv. In fueh a manner as that it may 
be properly applied. 
AP' FLIC ATE, f. A right line drawn acrofs a curve, 
fo as to bifeft the diameter thereof. 
APPLICA'TION,y. The aft of applying any thing to 
another; as, he mitigated his pain by the application ol 
emollients. The thing applied ; as, he invented a new 
application, by which blood might be flannelled. The aft 
of applying to any perfon, as a folicitor or petitioner. 
The employment of means fora certain end.—It a right 
courfe be taken with children, there will not be much 
need of the application of the common rewards and punifh- 
ments. Locke. —Intenfenefs of thought ; clofe ftudy.—I 
have difeovered no other way to keep our thoughts clofe 
to their bufinefs, but by frequent attention and application, 
getting the habit of attention and application. Locke. At¬ 
tention to fovne particular affair : with the particle to. — 
His continued application to fuch public affairs, as may 
benefit Iris kingdoms, diverts him from pleafures. Addi- 
fon. Reference to fome cafe or pofition ; as The ftory was 
told, and the hearers made the application. 
Application, in geometry, is ufed for the aft orfup- 
polition of putting or placing one figure upon another, 
to find whether they be equal or unequal; which feems 
to be the primary way in which the mind firft acquires 
both the idea and proof of equality. And in this way 
Euclid, and other geometricians, demonffrate fome of the 
firft or leading properties in geometry. Thus, if two 
triangles have two fides in the one triangle equal to two 
fidcs in the other, and alfo the angle included by the fame 
lides equal to each other ; then are the two triangles equal 
in all refpefts: for, by conceiving the one triangle placed 
on the other, it is proved that they coincide or exactly 
agree in all their parts. And the fame happens if, of 
two triangles, one fide and the two adjacent angles of the 
one triangle, are equal, refpeftively, to one fide and 
the two correfponding angles of the other. Thus alfo / 
may be proved that the diameter of a circle divides it 
into two equal parts, as alfo that the diagonal of a fquare 
or parallelogram bilefts or divides it into two equal parts. 
Application, in aftrology, the approaching of two 
planets to each other. 
Application of one fcience to another, as of algebra 
to geometry, is faid of the ufe made of the principles and 
properties of the one for augmenting and perfefting the 
other. Indeed all arts and fciences mutually receive aid 
from eacii other. But the application here meant, is of a 
more exprefs and immediate nature. The firft and prin¬ 
cipal applications of algebra were to arithmetical quef- 
tions and computations, as being the firft and moft ufeful 
fcicnce in all the concerns of human life. Afterwards al¬ 
gebra was applied to geometry and all the other fciences 
in their turn. 
APPLICATIVE, adj. That which applies.—The di¬ 
rective command for counfel is in the underftanding, and 
the applicative command for putting in execution is in the 
will. Bramhall. 
A P'PLIC ATORY, adj. That which comprehends the 
aft of application. 
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Atplicatory , f . That which applies. 
To APPLY', v. a. \_applico, Lat.] To put one thing tt> 
another.—He faid, and to the fword his throat applied. 
Dryden. To lay medicaments upon a wound.—God has 
addreffed every paffion ot our nature, applied remedies to 
every weaknefs, warned us of every enemy. Rogers. To 
make ufe of as relative or fuitable to fomething.—TIris 
brought the death of your father into remembrance, and 
I repeated the verfes which I formerly applied to him. 
Dryden. To put to a certain ufe.—The profits thereof 
might be applied towards the fupport of the year. Claren¬ 
don. To ule as means to an end.— Thefe glorious beings 
are inftmments in the hand of God, who applies their fer- 
vices, and governs their aftions, and difpofes even their 
wills and affeftions. Rogers. To fix the mind upon ; to 
ftudy : with to. Locke ufes about, lefs properly.—Every 
man is confcious to himfelf that he thinks ; and that which 
his mind is applied about , whilft thinking, is the ideas that 
are there. Locke. —To have recourfe to, as a folicitor or 
petitioner; with to : as, 1 applied myfelf to him for help. 
To add refs to : 
Sacred vows and myftic fong apply'd> 
To griflv Pluto and his gloomy bride. Pope. 
To bufy ; to keep at work: an antiquated - fenfe; for 
which we now vfeply. To aft upon ; to ply. 
To Ar ply, v. n. To fuit; to agree. To have recourfe 
to, as a petitioner. To attach by way of influence.—God 
knows every faculty and paffion, and in what manner they 
can be moft fuccefsfully applied. Rogers. 
APPOGIATU'RA, in mufic, a l'mall note inferted by 
the praftical mufician, between two others, at fome diftance. 
To APPO'INT, v. a. \_appointer, Fr.] To fix any thing, 
as to fettle the exaft time for fome tranfa-ftion.—Now 
there was an appointed fign between the men of Tfrael 
and the liers in wait. Judges, xx. 38. To e ft a b 1 i fir any 
thing by decree.—It was before the Lord, which chofe 
me before thy father, and before all his liottfe, to appoint 
me ruler over the people of the Lord. 2 Sam. vi. 21. To 
furnilh in all points ; to equip ; to flip ply with all things 
neceffary : ufed anciently in fpeaking of foldiers.—The 
Engliffi, being well appointed, did fo entertain them, that 
their fhips departed terribly torn. Hayward. 
APPOINTE'E, a foot-foldier, formerly in the French 
army, &c. who for his long fervice and bravery received 
pay above a private fentinel. Till the year 1670, they had 
alfo captains and lieutenants under the appellation oi ap¬ 
pointees, who, without redding in the regiment, received pay. 
Appointee, in heraldry, the fame as agSifee t-Hhus we 
fay, a. crofs appointee, to fignify that with two angles at 
the end cut off, fo as to terminate in points. 
APPOINT'ER,y". He that fettles or fixes any thing or 
place. 
APPOINT'MENT,yi \_appointement, Fr. ] Stipulation; 
the aft of fixing fomething in which two or more are con¬ 
cerned. Decree ; eftablifhment.—The ways of death be 
only in his hands, who alone hath power over all fiefh, 
and unto whole appointment we ought with patience meekly 
to fubmit ourfelves. Hooker. Direftion ; order. Equip¬ 
ment ; furniture : 
Here art thou in appointment frefli and fair, 
Anticipating time with ftarting courage. Shakefpcare. 
An allowance paid to any man, commonly ufed of allowances 
to public officers. 
To APPOR'TION, v. a. [from portio, Lat.] Toletout 
in juft portions.—An office cannot be apportioned out like- 
a common, and fh-a red among diftinft proprietors. Collier . 
APPOR'TIONMENT, f. in law, fignifies a divifion 
or partition of a rent, a common, or the like; that is, 
a making of it into parts or portions. If a man hath a 
rent-charge to-him and his heirs iffuing out of certain 
laud, if he purchafe any parcel of this to him and his 
heirs, all the rent-charge is extinft, becaufe the rent is 
intire, and iffuing out of eyery part of the land, and there¬ 
fore. 
