Both Uses

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The Gold-Bug
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Matters of little moment are rarely consigned to parchment; since, for the mere ordinary purposes of drawing or writing, it is not nearly so well adapted as paper.†
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well adapted = well suited
Here we are enabled, at once, to discard the 'th,' as forming no portion of the word commencing with the first t; since, by experiment of the entire alphabet for a letter adapted to the vacancy, we perceive that no word can be formed of which this th can be a part.†
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Definitions:

(1) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules)
changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable
(2) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for)
to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)