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1,063 words match “APT”

ADAPTABLE a.
Capable of being adapted.
ADAPTATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.
ADAPTATIVE a.
Adaptive. Stubbs.
ADAPTEDNESS n.
The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
ADAPTER n. 2 definitions
One who adapts.
ADAPTION n.
Adaptation. Cheyne.
ADAPTIVE a.
Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
ADAPTIVENESS n.
The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
ADAPTLY adv.
In a suitable manner. [R.] Prior.
ADAPTNESS n.
Adaptedness. [R.]
ADAPTORIAL a.
Adaptive. [R.]
ANABAPTISM n.
The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
ANABAPTIST n.
A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
ANABAPTISTIC; ANABAPTISTICAL a.
Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.
ANABAPTISTRY n.
The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt.
ANABAPTIZE v.
To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [R.] Whitlock.
ANAPTOTIC a.
Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.
ANAPTYCHUS n.
One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.
BAPTISM n.
The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
BAPTISMAL a.
Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. Baptismal name, the Christian name, which is given at baptism.
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