[f. next: see -ITY. Cf. mod.Fr. applicabilité.] The quality of being applicable; capability of being fitly applied; pertinence.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 110. There is a continued suitableness and applicability to the Text of Moses all along.
1818. Hallam, Middle Ages (1872), I. 480. The applicability of gunpowder to purposes of war.
1843. Poe, Purl. Lett., Wks. 1864, I. 274. If words derive any value from applicability.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 130. Multiplying the applicabilities, and so the usefulness, of its material.
