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An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2)
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A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.
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An attachment, a piece of equipment to adapt another tool or machine to a specific purpose.
The act of applying.
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1658, (w), ''The Way to Bliss,'' London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p.(nbs)75,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75720.0001.001
- (..) there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this ''Art'' and way of ''Healing:'' The first is knowledge of the ''Diseases:'' the second is the ''Remedies'' against them: and the third of the ''appliance'' of ''Remedies;'' All which should be traversed in this Discourse.
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Shirley)
A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet) Diseases desperate grownBy desperate appliance are reliev’d,Or not at all.
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(circa), (w), ''Moral Tales in Verse,'' London: George Cawthorn, 1797, Volume 2, “The Advantages of Repentance,” pp.(nbs)161-162,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857524.0001.002
- With charitable careThey rais’d him up, and, by appliance meet,Quicken’d the pulse, and bade it flow anew.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=Anthony Trollope|title=Framley Parsonage
Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)