applicative vs to the purpose

applicative

noun
  • A grammatical construct that casts a peripheral noun phrase as direct object. 

adj
  • Involving the application of an operator on an operand. 

  • Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result. 

  • Having practical application; applicable. 

to the purpose

How often have the words applicative and to the purpose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )