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Adapter   Listen
noun
Adapter  n.  
1.
One who adapts.
2.
(Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.





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"Adapter" Quotes from Famous Books



... suffices to characterize Herder as a translator or adapter of Oriental poetry. His Eastern studies have scarcely exerted any influence on his original poems beyond inspiring some fervid lines in praise of India and its dramatic art as exhibited in Sakuntala,[84] ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... as the gods are not eliminated they seem as a rule to be taken over quite naively from the source without further comment; but occasionally the poet expresses his view of their nature. Thus the French adapter of Statius's Thebais, in whose work the Christian element is otherwise not prominent, cautiously remarks that Jupiter and Tisiphone, by whom his heroes swear, are in reality only devils. Generally ...
— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann


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