adaptorialadj.
/ˌadəpˈtɔːrɪəl/, /ˌadapˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌædæpˈtɔriəl/, /ˌædəpˈtɔriəl/ rare.
Of, relating to, or characterized by adaptation.
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1838 R. Mudie Man i. 4 The chief objection to Paley's Natural Theology, or at all events the objection which comes second to the absence of those intellectual and adaptorial views,..is, that it is of too anatomical a character.
1975 V. Nabokov tr. A. S. Pushkin Eugene Onegin (rev. ed.) I. i. 102 There in olden years the sovereign of courageous satire, Fonvízin shone, the friend of freedom, and adaptorial [1964 imitational] Knyazhnín.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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