FromOld Frenchapte, fromLatinaptus(“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsoleteapere(“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin toapisci(“to reach, attain”) (compare withGreekἅπτειν(áptein,“to fasten”) andSanskritआप्त(āpta,“fit”), fromआप्(āp,“to reach, attain”)) or from*h₂ep-(“to join, fit (in)”).
1678,Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus:[…], London:[…] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, forR[ichard] Royston,[…],→OCLC:
a river[…]apt to be forded by a lamb
1755,Callimachus, “The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.”, inWilliam Dodd, transl.,The Hymns of Callimachus,[…], London:[…] The translator[William Dodd],[…],→OCLC,page 1:
While we toJove the pure libations pay, / ThanJove whatapter claims the hallow'd lay?
Since sick people wereapt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.
2023 January 26, Jacob Sullum, “A Federal Judge Blocks California's Ban on Medical Advice That Promotes COVID-19 'Misinformation'”, inReason[1]:
On Wednesday night, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against a new California law that makes physicians subject to professional discipline for sharing COVID-19 "misinformation" with their patients. U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb concluded that California's definition of misinformation is unconstitutionally vague, failing to give doctors fair notice of which conduct the statute covers, which is a basic requirement of due process. That vagueness is especially problematic in this context, Shubb said, because it isapt to have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.
Ready; especially fitted orqualified (to do something); quick to learn.
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