applot

English

Etymology

ad- +‎ plot

Verb

applot (third-person singular simple present applots, present participle applotting, simple past and past participle applotted)

  1. (transitive) To divide into plots or parts; to apportion.
    • 1649, "Articles of peace, made, concluded, accorded, and agreed upon by and between his excellency James lord marquis of Ormond, lord lieutenant-general, and general of his majesty's kingdom of Ireland, for, and on the behalf of, his most excellent majesty, by virtue of the authority wherewith the said lord lieutenant is intrusted, on the one part: and the general assembly of Roman Catholics of the said kingdom, for and on the behalf of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects of the same, on the other part", quoted in John Milton, "Observations on the Articles of Peace Between James Earl of Ormond for King Charles the First on the one hand, and the Irish Rebels and Papists on the other hand".
      […] and that the ſaid Thomas Lord Viſcount Dillon of Coſtologh Lord Preſident of Connaght, Donnogh Lord Viſcount Muſkerry, Francis Lord Bacon of Athunry, &c. or even any ſeven or more of them, ſhall have power to applot, raiſe and levy Means with Indifferency and Equality, by way of Exciſe or otherwiſe, in the ſeveral Cities, Corporate Towns, Counties and part of Counties, now within the Quarters and only upon the Eſtates of the ſaid Confederate Roman Catholics, all ſuch Sum and Sums of Money as ſhall appear to the ſaid Thomas Lord Viſcount Dillon of Coſtologh Lord Preſident of Connaght, Donnogh Lord Viſcount Muſkerry, Francis Lord Bacon of Athunry, &c. or even any ſeven or more of them, to be really due, for and in the Diſcharge of the public Engagements of the ſaid Confederate Catholics, incurred and grown due before the Concluſion of theſe Articles; […]

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(See the entry for applot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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