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coapt, v.|kəʊˈæpt|
[ad. late L. coapt-āre to fit together: see co- and apt v.]
To fit together, adapt to each other.
1. trans. To fit or join together.
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 572/1 The Atoms concur, cohere, and are co-apted, not by any design, but as Chance led them. 1874tr. Van Buren's Dis. Genit. Org. 37 Accurately coapting the edges of the wound.
†b. spec. in Geom. Obs.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 41 The right and absolute way..of Coaptyng and ioyning Lines and angles. 1570Billingsley Euclid iv. def. vii. 111 b, A right lyne is sayd to be coapted or applied in a circle, when the extremes or endes therof, fall vppon the circumference of the circle.
†2. To make apt or fitting. Obs.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 56 A necessary beginning to coapt a man to the excellency of eloquence. |