applicatious

Updated: May 28, 2025

These epistles, however, all ended their brief careers under the kindling wood in Mrs. Gabbitas's kitchen grate. 'Applicatious and industrial, with bettermentatious ambitions, Mr. Perkins had said of me within a few moments of our first meeting, and at this period I think I justified the sense of his comment. My daily work was pleasant enough, of course, healthy and not fatiguing.

A. J. (Alec John) Dawson - The Record of Nicholas Freydon: An Autobiography