adaptt (adapt)

[Short for adapted, prob. suggested by apt.] Adapted; fit; suitable. If we take this definition of happine , and examine it with reference to the senses, it will be acknowledged wonderfully adapt. Swift , Tale of a Tub, ix. [Providence] gave him able arms and back To wield a flail and carry sack, And in all stations active be, Adapt to prudent husbandry. D'Urfey, Colin's Walk, i. adaptability (a-dap-ta-bil'i-ti), n.; pl. adapt a bilities (-tiz). [ No wonder that with such ready adaptabilities they [Norwegians] made the best of emigrants. Froude , Sketches, p. 77. 2. Specifically, in biol., variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances. (a-dap'ta-bl), a. [ adapt + -able .] [Rare.] ity] can be recognised in every generation. Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 9. + -al .] Tending to adapt or fit; adaptive. adaptational (ad-ap-ta's hon-al), a. Relating Adar (a'där), n. or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment ta [Heb. adar ; etym. uncer- tain.] A Hebrew month, being the sixth of the corresponding to the latter part of February and the first part of March. of one thing to another; adaptive: in biol . , civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year, applied to physiological or functional modifi- cations of parts or organs, as distinguished from morphological or structural changes. adaptative (a-dap'ta-tiv), a. [L. adapt at us , pp. of adapt are , adapt (s (see adapt , v.), + + -ive .] Of or pertaining to adaptation; adaptive. [Rare.] adaptative ne (a-dap'ta-t 'ta-tiv-nes), n. Adapta IMG:content-0236.png:[ocr errors] bility. adaptedne (a-dap'ted-nes), n. The state of being adapted; suitablene ; fitne . The adaptedne of the Christian faith to all such [the poor and oppre ed], which was made a reproach against it by supercilious antagonists, constitutes one of its chief glories. G. P. Fisher, Begin. of Christianity, p. 545.