ppl. a. [f. APPLY v. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Folded. Obs. rare.

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c. 1500.  To serve a Lord, in Babees Bk., 367. The boteler … shall brynge forthe clenly dressed and fayre applyed Tabill-clothis. Ibid., 372. A longe towaile applyed dowble.

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  2.  Put to practical use; practical, as distinguished from abstract or theoretical.

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1656.  Artif. Beauty (1662), 216. In their applied sense or meaning.

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1832.  Babbage, Econ. Manuf., xxxv. 379. The applied sciences.

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1806.  Abp. Thomson, Laws of Th., Introd. 5. Applied logic (as distinguished from pure).

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