单词 | appliancy |
释义 | appliancyn. 1. = application n. (in various senses). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > putting to a specific use application1447 appliance1555 appliancy?1556 applyment1561 adaptation1597 applicature1652 applicate1852 devotion1861 ?1556 L. Digges (title) A boke named Tectonicon..And in thende a little treatise adioyned, openinge the composition and appliancie of an instrument called the profitable staffe. 1604 J. Hayward Treat. Vnion Two Realmes ii. 3 I am not assured whether the want of this hath made all other appliancies, whether of clemencie, or of iustice, or of armes, if not vnprofitable, yet insufficient, to represse the riotous rebellions of Ireland. 1622 J. Hayward Davids Teares 19 All other appliancies are as the handling of vlcers and wounds. 1832 B. L. Rayner Sketches Life T. Jefferson 327 Their momentous appliancy to the occasion. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism 320 The Bible was recognised as the..absolute standard of practical morality, to be enforced upon their members by due appliancies of discipline. 1966 C. C. Irwin in Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis 3 16 What was the distance between earning the undergraduate degree and appliancy for the doctoral program? 2. The quality of accommodating one's self; adaptability, pliancy. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > [noun] accommodableness1663 adaptation1787 accommodativeness1834 appliancy1836 adaptivity1840 adaptativeness1841 adaptiveness1863 adjustment1881 1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory Another Life vi. 87 When the same mind comes to be lodged in a body that has more appliancy, and a higher finish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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