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3. To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.

Yet God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.
Milton.

4. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

Apply thine heart unto instruction.
Prov. xxiii. 12.

5. To direct or address. [R.]

Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto.
Pope.

6. To betake; to address; to refer; — used reflexively.

I applied myself to him for help.
Johnson.

7. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.]

She was skillful in applying his "humors."
Sir P. Sidney.

8. To visit. [Obs.]

And he applied each place so fast.
Chapman.

Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. — Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

Apply
(Ap*ply"), v. i.

1. To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

2. To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

3. To ply; to move. [R.]

I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water.
T. Moore.

4. To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely

Appoggiatura
(||Ap*pog`gia*tu"ra) n. [It., fr. appogiarre to lean, to rest; ap- (L. ad) + poggiare to mount, ascend, poggio hill, fr. L. podium an elevated place.] (Mus.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; — generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

Appoint
(Ap*point") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appointing.] [OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. ad + punctum a point. See Point.]

1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

When he appointed the foundations of the earth.
Prov. viii. 29.