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use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

Capable of being adapted.

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.

Adaptive. Stubbs.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

One who adapts.

Adaptation. Cheyne.

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.

Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

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.