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Definition of Readapting
1. readapt [v] - See also: readapt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Readapting
Literary usage of Readapting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"In addition to these two large schools, shops for readapting men to work have
been organized in connection with the military hospital of Bonsecours at Rouen ..."
2. The Negro Question by George Washington Cable (1898)
"... called the New South to-day is farthest from it—it is only the Old South
readapting the old plantation idea to a peasant labor and mineral products. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"... who beautified himself with the feathers of others ; and Greene must have
known, as he assisted Shakespeare in rewriting and readapting parts of some ..."
4. Lord Byron as a Satirist in Verse by Claude Moore Fuess (1912)
"The idea of thus preserving the continuity of Horace's poem, while revising and
readapting its text, was probably first conceived by Oldham in his English ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1884)
"Now, how much can we pay for a thousand feet of gas to justify us in throwing
away these enormously expensive furnaces, or in readapting our plant to the ..."
6. Senescence, the Last Half of Life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"Senescence is retardation and rejuvenescence is the acceleration that works by
transforming, readapting, and even sloughing off old and useless structures. ..."
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