appliable

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  1. Capable of being applied; applicable; pertinent; suitable. All that I have said of … heathen idolatry is appliable to … idolatry of another sort. South.
  2. Willing to apply one's self; compliant; disposed to listen. Apte by goodnes of witte, and appliable by readines of will, to learning. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 38.

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  • It is a human construct, physics is a universal tool appliable to any situation —  WFMU's recent playlists
  • The following are a set of well fundamented suggestions appliable to both the suffering and the healthy on —  We Blog A Lot
  • Which maketh Isaac's offering, and Joseph's selling, and Israel's calling from Egypt, and that complaint of David's, and this of Jeremy's, appliable to Him; that He may take them to Himself, and the Church ascribe them to Him, and that in more fitness of terms, and more fulness of truth, than they were at the first spoken by David, or Jeremy, or any of them all. —  The Continuum
  • Is he, that is apte by goodnes of witte, and appliable by —  The Schoolmaster
  • And that which is said here, of the Rights of an Assembly, for the government of a Province, or a Colony, is appliable also to an Assembly for the Government of a Town, or University, or a College, or a Church, or for any other —  Leviathan
 

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