Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Applicate \Ap"pli*cate\, a. [L. applicatus, p. p. of applicare.
   See {Apply}.]
   Applied or put to some use.

         Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man
         over the elements.                       --I. Taylor.

   {Applicate number} (Math.), one which applied to some
      concrete case.

   {Applicate ordinate}, right line applied at right angles to
      the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.