appliment
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
appliment (plural appliments)
- (obsolete) Application
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Webster, “The Induction to the Malecontent, and the Additions Acted by the Kings Maiesties Servants”, in Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC:
- Yet there are a ſort of diſcontented creatures that beare a ſtingeleſſe envie to great ones, and theſe will wreſt the doings of any man to their baſe malitious appliment: […]
Further reading edit
- “appliment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.