Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AP-PLI-CA'TION
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AP-PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. applicatio. See Apply.]
- The act of laying on; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
- The thing applied; as, the pain was abated by the application.
- The act of making request or soliciting; as, he made application to a court of chancery.
- The act of applying as means; the employment of means; as, children may be governed by a suitable application of rewards and punishments. This is the first signification directed to moral objects.
- The act of fixing the mind; intenseness of thought; close study; attention; as, to injure the health by application to study. Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater. – J. Jay.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate the agreement or disagreement; as, I make the remark and leave you to make the application.
- In theology, the act by which the merits of Christ are transferred to man, for his justification.
- In geometry, a division for applying one quantity to another, whose areas, but not figures, shall be the same; or the transferring a given line into a circle or other figure, so that its ends shall be in the perimeter of the figure. – Encyc.
- In sermons, that part of the discourse, in which the principles before laid down and illustrated, are applied to practical uses.
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