[f. ADAPT v. + -ING1.] The action of fitting, suiting, or rendering suitable. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1632. Cotgr., Adaptation [Fr.], An adapting, fitting, or suiting of one thing to another.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. (1684), 35. An adapting of all these to the Constitution, Disposition, and Inclinations of the Patient.
1714. Swift, 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.
