Middle English Dictionary Entry
applīāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | applīāble adj. |
| Etymology | From applīen . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Applicable, appropriate; (b) comparable; (c) accommodating, agreeable; compliant, obedient.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.2 : Out of the testament olde, Thre stories..appliables shall be tolde.
b
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.World (Hrl 2255)46 : The owle with the egle doth nat compare..Ryght delyuered for ambicioun Vnto trewthe is nat appliable.
c
- (1450) RParl.5.181b : The saide Duke..caused to be made dyvers persones to be Shirreves..som to be appliable to his entent and commaundement.
- (1472) Stonor1.128 : If..þe preste fele her veryly applyable.
- (1474) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.1927 : Yee have been agreable and appliable to every thynge for the weell of the matier.
- a1500(a1471) Ashby APP (Cmb Mm.4.42)367 : Kepe no selfe-willed oppunion, But to all reason bethe appliable.
- a1500(a1471) Ashby APP (Cmb Mm.4.42)474 : With whom thei [your servants] haue be vpbraught..to suche thei shalbe appliable.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)984 : Their bodies were appliable To youre highnesse in al thinge.