appliance

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a…

   An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially

   • Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king?
   • “[…] Oh, the pipe! won’t you have it lit again, father?” said Eppie, lifting that medicinal appliance from the ground.
2. 2

   The act of applying.

   • [T]he attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her: […]
3. 3

   A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.

   • […] Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev’d, Or not at all.
   • Physician. Now I haue found you out, you are in loue. Jane. I thinke I am, what your appliance now? Can all your Paracelsian mixtures cure it, ’T must be a Surgeon of the Ciuill Law, I feare that must cure me.
   • c. 1775, Thomas Hull, Moral Tales in Verse, London: George Cawthorn, 1797, Volume 2, “The Advantages of Repentance,” pp. 161-162, With charitable care They rais’d him up, and, by appliance meet, Quicken’d the pulse, and bade it flow anew.
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   1. 4

      Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.

      • And hearing your high majesty is touch’d With that malignant cause wherein the honour Of my dear father’s gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it and my appliance With all bound humbleness.

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