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well-aˈpplied, ppl. a.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xviii. (1912) 463 By the diligent care of friends and well applied cunning of surgeons. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. ii. 5 Timoclea, with well-applyed language, began to question her Guest. 1764Dodsley in Shenstone's Wks. (1768) II. 317 A stone seat..with this well-applied inscription. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 646 A discreet and well-applied industry in the service of mankind. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy vi, Giving him a hearty cuff on the ear, which would have knocked him down, only that Oonah kept him up by an equally well applied box on the other. |