Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Readily applicable; practical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting in or fitted for application; serving for application; practical: as, “applicatory information,”
- Making application, appeal, or request.
- noun That which applies; a means of putting to use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be
applied or used,practical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective readily applicable or practical
Etymologies
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Examples
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Truly, besides those general ways, in the law and in the preaching of it, God hath particular applicatory ways, and works in the world in judgments and afflictions; and how soon he may enter into our consciences we know not.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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And there is added hereunto a testimony that is immediately applicatory unto the souls of believers, of this sovereign testimony of the holy Trinity; and this is the witness of grace and all sacred ordinances: “There are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one,” verse 8.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965
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May it please your honors, and you gentlemen of the jury, -- After having thus gone through the evidence and considered it as applicatory to all and every one of the prisoners, let us take once more a brief and cursory survey of matters supported by the evidence.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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And the reason he giveth of this his faith is the observation of the principles they usually hold forth, especially in the applicatory part of their sermons.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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a part of tenderness of conscience in the regenerate, to be too applicatory of the law and of wrath: “I am afflicted above all others, therefore God is angry with me, and I am cast off by God.”
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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