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Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

In a suitable manner. [R.] Prior.

Adaptedness. [R.]

Adaptive. [R.]

Mutual adaption. R. Owen.

Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.

See Dabchick.

A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.

Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

tended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.