a. and sb. [f. L. applicāt- (see APPLICATE) + -ORY.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  Having the property of applying (a thing to effective or practical use).

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c. 1540.  Coverdale, Christ’s Cross, v. Wks. II. 249. A sacrifice not only applicatory, but also propitiatory, because it applieth the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Select. (1840), 190. I may perish without I have this applicatory faith.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 112. Revelations … not explicatory or applicatory of Scripture.

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a. 1703.  Burkitt, On N. T., Rom., Pref. The applicatory or practical part of this epistle.

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1853.  Lynch, Self-Improv., vi. 152. Some other supplementary remark of an exhortative and applicatory kind.

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  † 2.  Proper to be applied, applicable.

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1649.  Blith, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 33. The remedies being equally applicatory to both.

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  † 3.  Making application, appeal or request. Obs.

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1653.  Baxter, Chr. Concord, 4. We speak of Ministers Applicatory.

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1673.  Marvell, Reh. Transp., II. (1674), 233. Applicatory discourses.

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  † B.  sb. A means of applying to practical use.

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1660.  Jer. Taylor, Worthy Commun., i. § 4 (1667), 51. Faith is the inward applicatory. Ibid. (1663), Serm., 52–3 (R.). All these being practical … need no other applicatory but a plain exhortation.

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