disadaptv.
/ˌdɪsəˈdapt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈdæpt/ rare before 20th cent.
transitive. To make less well adapted or suited to a set of conditions, requirements, etc.; to cause to lose an adaptation. Also intransitive: to become less well adapted or suited to a set of conditions, requirements, etc.; to lose adaptation.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desagencer, to disadapt, disadiust.
1918 Mind 27 385 A process whose function consists in readjusting action momentarily disadapted.
1948 B. Frechtman tr. J.-P. Sartre Emotions i. 30 Since..emotional reactions are regarded not as a pure disorder but as a lesser adaptation: the nervous system of the child, the first organized system of defensive reflexes, is disadapted in relation to the needs of the adult.
1966 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. 12 838 Once the inhibition is effective it remains effective even when the external receptors disadapt.
2010 Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 4 86/1 It needs to be examined whether resting moths can be disadapted via octopamine-mediated stressors.
Derivatives
disaˈdapted adj.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desagencé, disadapted, disadiusted.
1957 Sci. News Let. 14 Sept. 169/1 Those individuals that make the mistake of mating with the ‘wrong’ species and producing disadapted hybrids.
2015 J. Feyaerts & S. Vanheule in P. Gherovici & M. Steinkoler Lacan on Madness xi. 165 Lacan consequently stresses that man is, by definition, a disadapted animal burdened with a disordered Gestalt-like imagination.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desagencement, a disadapting, disadiusting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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