All 4 Uses of
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Moby Dick
- He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- …is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.†
Chpt 31-33
- And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.†
Chpt 34-36
- One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts.†
Chpt 55-57 *
Definitions:
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(adapted as in: the species is well adapted for) to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
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(adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable