Anointed, "two knaves anointed" (N[113],d), thorough-paced, "out-and-out"; a double pun is intended the references being to anointed = beaten, with an eye on anointed = consecrated by the pouring on of oil. "Then thay put hym hout, the kyng away fly, Which so well was anoynted indede, That no sleue ne pane had he hoe of brede."—The Romans of Partenay (ed. Skeat), 5652-4.
Apaid, "very well apaid" (WH[280],c), glad, satisfied, pleased, paid. "They buy thy help: but sin ne'er gives a fee, He gratis comes; and thou art well appay'd, As well to hear as grant what he hath said."—Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece (1594), l. 913.
Appair, "I say his wealth doth mend, he saith it doth appair" (R[226],b), becomes worse, degenerates. "All that liveth appaireth fast."—Everyman, Anon. Pl. 1 S. (E.E.D.S.), 94,d.
Apple ([19],d), in original a nappyl.
Applied, "to Him should be applied" (M[3],b), given, rendered, one's heart or mind fixed upon: the only sense of apply in the English Bible.
Apply, see Aged.
Apprehensible, "was not apprehensible" (M[33],a), competent.
Appropriations, "bare parsonages of appropriations" (R[218],d), technically, at law (according to Blackstone, I. 11) an appropriation is the transference to a religious house, or spiritual corporation, of the tithes and other endowments designed for the support of religious ordinances in a parish; also these when transferred. When the monastic bodies were in their glory in the Middle Ages they begged, or bought for masses and obits, or in some cases even for actual money, all the advowsons which they could get into their hands. In obtaining these they came under the obligation either to present a clergyman to the church, or minister there in holy things themselves. They generally did the latter, and applied the surplus to the support and aggrandisement of their order. On the suppression of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII. the appropriated advowsons were transferred to the king, and were ultimately sold or granted out to laymen, since called impropriators. See Respublica.
Array, (a) "array toward" (R[258],d), i.e. preparations in progress. (b) "nice in their array" (M[14],b), dress, equipment, outward appearance. "But for to telle you of his aray, His hors was good, but he ne was nought gay."—Chaucer, Cant. Tales (1383), Prologue, 73-4.