apply
verb (used with object)
to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent.
applier
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a word derived from
apply.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes only a sister can rub arnica on your arse when you are holding an undignified position and want to be able to look the applier in the eye again.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2018
I told him the reflection both of the poet and applier was much too general, and made with more ill-nature than good manners.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
The only Dictionary in which I have found it with this meaning is Entick's, in which it is given under the word applier.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
He is reduced, therefore, at one blow to the level of a pulpit moralist, or mere applier of moral laws to human actions.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
Masser was the theoreticist—I was the applier, the one who translated equations into cold blueprints.
From Now We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley
