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▪ I. adapting, vbl. n.|əˈdæptɪŋ| [f. adapt v. + -ing1.] The action of fitting, suiting, or rendering suitable. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1632Cotgr., Adaptation [Fr.] An adapting, fitting, or suiting of one thing to another. 1656Cowley Davideis i. (1684) 35 An adapting of all these to the Constitution, Disposition, and Inclinations of the Patient. 1714Swift State of Aff. Wks. 1755 II. i. 205, I do not know a greater mark of an able minister, than that of rightly adapting the several faculties of men. Mod. This clever adapting of means to ends. He is skilled in adapting French plays. ▪ II. adapting, ppl. a.|əˈdæptɪŋ| [f. adapt v. + -ing2.] Rendering suitable, modifying.
1836J. Gilbert Atonement iv. (1852) 91 The adapting intelligence which limited their energy to the discharge of that office. |