Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. (n.) The thing applied. 3. (n.) The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. 4. (n.) The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory. 5. (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry. 6. (n.) The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application. 7. (n.) The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study. 8. (n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery. 9. (n.) A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

Multi-Version Concordance Application (2 Occurrences) 1 Corinthians 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another. (DBY) 1 Timothy 1:9 knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers, (DBY)