a) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.
b) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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