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
In no case is the adage truer, 'Other men laboured, but ye are entered into their labours,' than in the case of the discoverer and applier of natural truth.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
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
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
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
