appliable

adj — 2 senses

appliable

adj

UK /əˈplʌɪəb(ə)l/

Etymology From Middle English appliable, applyable; equivalent to apply + -able.

1

Obsolete Compliant; accommodating.

2

Able to be put into use or applied; applicable.

  • He that forgets not how Antiquity named this the Conjugall or wedding number, and made it the Embleme of the most remarkable conjunction, will conceive it duely appliable unto this handsome Oeconomy, and vegetable combination [...].1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
Derived terms
appliableness, appliably, unappliable

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