Meanings
- pluralplural of apparatus
Had this Thing been known 50 Years ago, there had then been doubtleſs fifty of theſe Apparatuſſes to one we find now.
1755, Benjamin Martin, The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical, 3rd edition, London: printed for W. Owen, page 3242 more examples
A classification based on the reunion of apparatusses engaged in the performance of one function, is identical with a classification founded on the reunion of apparatusses engaged in the performance of another function.
1842, William Jackson Hooker, The London Journal of Botany, volume I, London: Hippolyte Baillière, page 580The establishment of early modern state apparatusses is seen as a kind of continuous-flow water heater for this trickling down, where client-oriented apparatusses are seen as particularly central (lower administration, church, school, etc.).
1988, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio, editors, Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 29
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