The four authentic modes wereadaptations of four modes employed by the Greeks.
Both methods--actual adaptationsof older tunes and the spontaneous enunciation of more obvious melodic formulas--may have been allied in the production of the earlier liturgic chants.
Many of them are translations or adaptations of psalms, some of which are nearly literal transfers.
His intercourse with his employer, Mr. Boffin, is a frequent cause of his dropping into poetry, and most of his efforts are adaptations of popular songs.
From such specialadaptations the similarity of the larvæ or active embryos of allied animals is sometimes much obscured.
Many, or most, of the stories of fairies told frankly for children are adaptations or variants of continental folk-legends.
We have witch stories melodramatic, romantic, tragic, comic, and satiric, showing the influence of the great creations of past literature with modern adaptations and additions.
The rude symmetry of the feudal system had been long ago destroyed by partial and unskilful adaptations to modern commercial life, effected at various dates and in accordance with various theories.
Betterton was author of several adaptationswhich were popular in their day.
These genera give but a feeble idea of the variety of forms included in this family, which comprises adaptations to every mode of life for which snakes are fitted.
The adaptations which enable plants to survive in a tract deficient in moisture are of various kinds.
Two tests were borrowed from the Healy-Fernald series, one from Kuhlmann, one was adapted from Bonser, and the remaining five were amplifications or adaptations of some of the earlier Binet tests.
A large number of his hymns are, in fact, faithful but often striking adaptations of Bible stories and texts.
His treatment of the originals is so free, however, that it is difficult in most cases to know whether his versions should be accepted as adaptations or originals.
The habitat of these moor-and heath-grasses suggests that these are no doubt adaptations to prevent excessive evaporation by the exposure of too large a surface--e.
Interesting biological adaptations are met with in the distribution of grass “seeds.
This end has been gained in a great variety of ways, and with so many corresponding adaptations as to leave no doubt as to the value of the result.
While educated Catholics insisted that Christ was indirectly the source of all faith and all practice, they were quite willing to admit that external changes and adaptations of institutions to varying conditions had taken place.
Divers adaptations for heating by steam have been arranged, in a very convenient form, by Mr Coffey.
The proceedings were approximately uniform in all the States, and the constitutions, with such minor differences and adaptations as circumstances required, were in all essential points the same.
In early life he was a Methodist preacher of peculiar earnestness and force, with special adaptations to the people among whom his ministry lay.
He was the author of philosophical works, chiefly translations and adaptationsfrom the Greek, but is best known by his extant work on metres in four books, and by some other extant grammatical treatises.
His dramatic works were numerous, both tragedies and comedies, for the most part translations and adaptations from the Greek, but alongside of these he produced also plays based upon Roman legends.
Not only scattered lines, but whole passages are almost literal translations from the idylls of Theocritus, and less noticeable adaptations from other poets also occur.
The very existence of order and system, of mechanical adjustments and organic adaptations in the universe, seems to prove that matter must have had a beginning.
If we would speak of the extrinsic end of a thing we must mean thereby the whole of its adaptations to other things, the entire circle of its external relationships, the sum of its uses.
To admit the existence of God, and yet to refuse to acknowledge that He purposed and planned the adaptations and harmonies in nature, is surely as presumptuous as it is inconsistent.
But men have always shown themselves prone in judging of the extrinsic ends of things to single out some particular adaptation or use, or at least a few adaptations or uses, and to ignore or exclude all others.
The argument is not employed to prove the infinity of the Divine Intelligence, but to prove that the order and adaptations which everywhere abound in the universe must have had an intelligence capable of conceiving and producing them.
The sea, with its winds and waves, its streams and currents, its salts, its flora and fauna, teems with adaptations no less than the land.
Those who refuse to refer the order and adaptations in the universe to a designing intelligence are bound to account for them in some other way.
The proof of the Divine existence from the order and adaptations of the universe is known as the physico-theological or teleological argument.
These two authors have also treated of the adaptations subsisting between the organic and inorganic worlds.
If the present equilibrium of forces were eternal all adaptations to it would have already taken place and, while no essential catastrophe would need to be dreaded, no essential improvement could be hoped for in all eternity.
Could this balance be preserved indefinitely, no one knows what wonderful adaptations might occur within it, and to what excellence human nature in particular might arrive.
There are certain adaptations and abbreviations of reality which thought can never outgrow.
True, there is an appearance, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, of an ascending scale of being, from simply organized forms and imperfect developments up to the complex arrangements and nice adaptations of the advanced tribes.
The marvellous adaptations of these new races to the altered conditions of the earth's surface when they appeared, then, become additional proofs of the wisdom and constant oversight of a designing Creator.
Mortality Factors and Adaptations for Survival Defense, and Escape The behavior patterns that are associated with defense and escape in snakes are widespread.
Adaptations to exploit certain types of prey and to utilize most efficiently certain habitats and types of cover, have led to divergent trends in different parts of the range.
So beautifully coordinated are these adaptations that specialized flowers attract the very insects that do them the most good.
Immovable joints, or synarthroses, are usually adaptations to growth rather than mobility, and are always between bones.
He thus threw in his lot with the Scottish philosophy, and his first dissertations are, in their leading position, adaptationsfrom Reid's Inquiry.
Among Mr Grundy's most successful adaptations were the charming Pair of Spectacles (Garrick, 1890) from Les Petits Oiseaux of MM.
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But this opinion is untenable if we examine carefully the whole organisation of the three sub-classes, and do not lay the chief stress on incidental features and secondary adaptations (such as the formation of the marsupium).
It is true that the skeleton of the limbs of the various mammals undergoes many distortions and degenerations besides the special adaptations (Figure 2.
On account of fresh adaptationsthey have become superfluous, but are transmitted from generation to generation by heredity, and gradually atrophy.
Moreover, changes of climate, or habits, and other adaptations unknown to us, may have assisted the disappearance of the hairy coat.
The other, the chief line of the Vertebrate stem, advanced straight to the fishes, and by fresh adaptations acquired a number of important improvements.
As such it is a new adaptation, and the result of a series of such adaptations may be as great and radical a social transformation as one may have the courage to set as the goal of a definite policy of social effort.
If by means of them we arrive at desired and desirable adaptations to and within our environment, we say they are verified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adaptations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
