[A mixture of ADAPT and APTITUDE.] Adaptedness; aptitude specially produced.

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1842.  Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets, 129. A hedge-thorn catches sheep’s wool by position and approximation rather than adaptitude.

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1852.  Browning, Ess. on Shelley (1881), 16. A profound sensibility and adaptitude for act.

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