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Definition of Preadapted
1. preadapt [v] - See also: preadapt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preadapted
Literary usage of Preadapted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Problem of Christianity: Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in by Josiah Royce (1913)
"If life itself ever had an origin, the physical world was thus, in a manner which
is new to us, inexplicably preadapted to the coming life for an ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"To feel within ourselves the power, of action in this or that direction is to
feel ourselves organically predisposed to do certain things, or preadapted to ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1843)
"... of heaven for the neglect of the sovereign ; — for, to this end, and to no
other, was superiority given to a few, and the souls of all men preadapted ..."
4. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"little to learn, because their instinctive movements are initially preadapted in
a very definite and specialised way to definite specialised exigencies of ..."
5. Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction by Herbert George Wells (1912)
"... hence he must be preadapted, and through the stern process of natural selection
in weeding out susceptible individuals he has evolved an innate ..."
6. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1919)
"... personal organization of life, but he came into contact with them in only a
casual way, and we do not assume that he was preadapted to their influence. ..."
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