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1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1195 How can the matter of this corrupted body be readapted to the natural faculties of a humane Soul unless it be raised again into a humane body?

1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades xviii. 311 Observe and be very careful at every distillation not to force the distillation beyond the phlegm. But when it comes for the last time, re-adapt the bladder, and give the gradual rising fire till the oil ascends.

1847 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. xxvii. 663 To re-adapt it [sc. the nut] to the lessened size of the screw.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. i. 19 To readapt, in a purified shape, the old eras.

1906 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 21 206 We grant him originality in plot handling, as well as the power to readapt French wit for English hearers.

1962 Amer. Anthropologist 64 923 It seems to me an unrealistic procedure to maintain that this late in the day we can readapt the term ‘race’ to mean something utterly different.

2000 J. Caughie Television Drama viii. 207 The novels of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Conrad, Dickens, [etc.]..have been adapted and sometimes readapted.

1852 Amer. Whig Rev. June 547/1 He is a true conservative who intelligently and warily remodels and readapts to strengthen and save.

1858 E. R. Service Profile of Primitive Cult. 40 They readapted to the Yaghan environment almost immediately on being returned to their people.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Readapt.., to become adapted again.

1971 N. Freeling Over High Side iii. 226 The little flat..had become ‘working woman alone’ instead of ‘married couple’... ‘I'm glad to see you're re-adapting with no trouble.’

2001 D. Romano Intercultural Marriage (ed. 2) x. 88 Ravi was going through reentry shock and wrestling with the changes demanded of him as he readapted to India.

1894 Forum (U.S.) Aug. 672 Evidence of their readaptability to society.

2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 July 32 The shrines prove the re-adaptability of religious ceremonies and celebrate local wherewithal.

1789 S. T. Coleridge Let. 26 May (1956) I. 5 Time enough for readaptation before Whitmondy.

1859 E. A. Stopford Work & Counterwork 29 This is but a readaptation..of the first faculty of reasoning.

1995 Visit'n: Conversat. with Vermonters (Vermont Folklife Center) 5 Who knows better than the farmer who has lived it, the everyday changes which have occurred over time—the readaptation of buildings, the new techniques employed?

1961 C. H. Hardin Branch & N. J. Cole in L. Brahdy Dis. & Injury ii. 28 The patient..counts his losses and faces the difficult problem of readapting to some form of productive living.

1974 Issue 4 4/1 Thinking dominated by political attitudes encounters difficulty in readapting.

1991 New Scientist 16 Feb. 22/1 Rats sent into space..showed that readapting, whether on Mars or back on Earth, may not be straightforward.

2003 China Jrnl. (Austral. National Univ.) No. 50. 180 The difficulties of readapting to rural life.