APPLICATION Copy link • APPLICATIONuse, usus: usurpatio (act of using in a particular instance): a bad application, abusus. To admit of a wider application, latius patere. Application of mind, animi attentio (Cic.). oftener intentio (act of directing the thoughts to anything): (diligentia (care with which one attends to anything: opposed to indiligentia). In Cic. applicatio animi is the attaching of the mind to an object with affection. To make a practical application of any thing, aliquid ita tractare, ut id ad usum transferas. All the applications of an art, omnia, quae aliqua arte effici possunt. Application (= particular use) of a word, must be translated by circumlocution with verbo uti (not verbum usurpare, adhibere): subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare, declarare. To use a word in a rare application, verbum doctiuscule ponere. “Cic., too, makes a similar application of the word,” item consimiliter Cic. verbo isto utitur. “Cic. uses the word in a contrary application,” contra valet cum Cic. - ita dicit. Vid: Positio dictionis is not Latin. Petition, Vid: Act of applying, circumlocution by participle admotus. “By the application of herbs,” admotis herbis (animam admotis fugientem sustinet herbis, Ov.). To make the application (e.g., of a tale), interpretari aliquid.