adaptatev.
/ˈadəpteɪt/, /ˈadapteɪt/, U.S. /ˈædæpˌteɪt/, /ˈædəpˌteɪt/ transitive. = adapt v. (in various senses).
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > adaptation > adapt [verb (transitive)]
tempera1000
transpose1509
adaptate1638
adapt1676
modify1800
reconfigure1939
tailor1942
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)]
afaite?c1225
ablea1400
reducec1450
fashion1526
adapt1531
framec1537
handsome1555
accommode1567
apt?1578
square1578
fit1580
coapt1586
commodate1595
suit1595
dispose1602
adjust1611
agence1633
adaptate1638
plya1657
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suit or be suitable for [verb (transitive)] > make or select as appropriate to > make suitable
adapt1531
apt?1578
coapt1586
appropriate1594
suit1595
fit1600
dispose1602
adaptate1638
meeten1807
1638 T. Whitaker Tree Humane Life 36 Their Spheare of motion may be more or lesse adaptated by externall meanes.
1659 Instr. Oratory 26 Those [words] derived from the Latine..being..more adaptated for many discourses.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plato in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 690 It is your work now to Adaptate the Mortal to the Immortal.
1826 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 12 122 This appears to be..a mode of adaptating an elastic shield to the sides and to the bows of ships, and of smaller vessels.
1889 Babylonian & Oriental Rec. May 130 A fabling inference..has been eagerly adaptated by the doers of Annamite history.
1914 Jrnl. Heredity 5 296/2 A considerable number of our productions are well adaptated to foreign conditions.
1997 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Dec. h16 Puppetmongers Powell returns for its eighth season with Tea At The Palace, adaptated from a Russian fable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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