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Webster 1913 Edition
Aptitude
1.
A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect;
as, oil has an
. aptitude
to burnHe seems to have had a peculiar
aptitude
for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.
2.
A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
That sociable and helpful
aptitude
which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.
3.
Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
He was a boy of remarkable
aptitude
. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aptitude
APT'ITUDE
,Noun.
1.
A natural or acquired disposition for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn; men acquire an aptitude to particular vices.2.
Fitness; suitableness.3.
Aptness; readiness in learning; docility.