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Definition of Aptest
1. apt [adj] - See also: apt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aptest
Literary usage of Aptest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live
at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live
at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"Does he thereby learn a wide command of synonymes, and a dexterity in seizing
the aptest word to convey his meaning ? He learns a command of synonymes, ..."
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