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adjective

Apt adj.

Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. "They have always apt instruments." "A river... apt to be forded by a lamb."

Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; used of things. "My vines and peaches... were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit." "This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant."

Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; used of persons. "Apter to give than thou wit be to ask." "That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers."

Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." "Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die." "I find thee apt... Now, Hamlet, hear."

Synonyms: Fit; meet; suitable; qualified; inclined; disposed; liable; ready; quick; prompt.

verb

Apt v. t. To fit; to suit; to adapt. (Obs.) " To apt their places." "That our speech be apted to edification."

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... compost is intended for. For rye we apply 20 to 25 loads per acre of a compost made with 4,500 fish, (one load) and with this manuring, no matter how poor the soil, the rye will be as large as a man can cradle. Much of ours we have to reap. For oats we use less fish, as this crop is apt to lodge. For corn, one part fish to ten or twelve muck is about right, while for grass or any top-dressing, the proportion of fish ...

— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson

... hearing him preach a doctrine to which I did not adhere, nor for any sectarian reason. Indeed, I regret not having heard him preach and speak oftener; it would have interested me, and it would have been kinder and more brotherly; but one is apt not to do the things which one thinks one can always do, and the fact that I did not hear him was due to a mixture of shyness and laziness, which I now ...

— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... Majorian, like the weakest of his predecessors, was reduced to the disgraceful expedient of substituting Barbarian auxiliaries in the place of his unwarlike subjects: and his superior abilities could only be displayed in the vigor and dexterity with which he wielded a dangerous instrument, so apt to recoil on the hand that used it. Besides the confederates, who were already engaged in the service of the empire, the fame of his liberality and valor attracted the nations of the Danube, the Borysthenes, and perhaps of the Tanais. Many thousands of the bravest subjects of Attila, the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon

... become transparent if they are cemented in Canada balsam, and rubbed down very thin, in the ordinary way of making thin sections of non-transparent bodies. But as the thin slices, made in this way, are very apt to crack and break into fragments, it is better to employ marine glue as the cementing material. By the use of this substance, slices of considerable size and of extreme thinness and ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... matter as a jest would have offended the Iron King; to have taken it seriously would most justly and unpardonably have offended Corona Rothsay. Truly, Rose found that "Jordan am a hard road to trabbel!" And here at least was an apt application of ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

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