Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an applicable manner; fittingly.

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  • adverb In an applicable manner.

Etymologies

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applicable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She said the couple came to the decision mutually and applicably.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2009 2009

  • But it would be wrong to suggest this taints only the Conservatives, for finally becoming proactive in the face of unbending resistance, both to democratic reform, but more applicably to inevitably corrupt Liberal patronage.

    2008 December 26 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • More applicably, she taught Masson the ethic of hard work.

    An Immovable Feast Douglas McGrath 2008

  • But it would be wrong to suggest this taints only the Conservatives, for finally becoming proactive in the face of unbending resistance, both to democratic reform, but more applicably to inevitably corrupt Liberal patronage.

    David Frum On Senate Reform « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • For to have something uniform as a placeholder is not only applicably predictable, but practical, uniform to a X.

    GRAY - SLOG 2006

  • For to have something uniform as a placeholder is not only applicably predictable, but practical, uniform to a X.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Other memo: must snag contact info for people off lj user=userinfo and file applicably.

    the day without a livejournal badger 2005

  • There is an exemption for a proceeding “which no party disputes, and the court finds, that the incapacitated person while having capacity, had executed a written advance directive valid under applicably law that clearly authorized the withholding or or (sic) withdrawl (sic) of food and fluids or medical treatment in the applicable circumstances.”

    Terri Schiavo news 2005

  • FLEISCHER: No. Because I think it's obvious that the ramifications of legal issues can rise up to a higher level, especially when you with, as Helen put it, the applicably of the Geneva Convention.

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2002 2002

  • "A house divided against itself cannot stand," like many another passage and teaching from the "Book of God and the god of books," might as applicably be preached to a large number of Negro preachers as to their congregations.

    Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

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