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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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— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney

... said that Baring had only changed his mind in the way in which all people are apt to change their minds when they are employed as the agents of a policy, and I combated Chamberlain's military views, which were, in fact, for defending Egypt by the fleet—that fleet which is expected ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... executive, perhaps his most notable characteristic is the will to dominate. This does not mean that he is the egocentric autocrat pictured by his opponents, for in conference he is apt to be tolerant of the opinions of others, by no means dictatorial in manner, and apparently anxious to obtain facts on both sides of the argument. An unfriendly critic, Mr. E. J. Dillon, has said of him at Paris that "he was a very good listener, an intelligent questioner, and amenable ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... of the globe." The manner in which the Khan has performed his self-imposed task, is highly creditable to his industry and discrimination, and strongly contrasts, in the accuracy of the facts and plain sense of the narration, with the wild extravagances in which Asiatic historiographers are apt to indulge; the Anglo-Saxon part of the history, on which especial pains appears to have been bestowed, is particularly complete and well written—unless (as, indeed, we are almost inclined to suspect) it be a translation in toto ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various

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