You will be apter to abuse your inferiors than well to govern them.
Passion, says I, is apter to discover our Thoughts than to teach us to counterfeit.
He is apter to say: "Do you carry your own, or will you try mine?"
The apter he is to smatter, the slower he is in making any advance in his pretences.
I may be apter than my appearance would give reason to think.
It had been apter to describe Coquelin as the French Jefferson.
I thought you had been an apter scholar, Gerald, and that ere this you had found your way to fortune.
The announcement of Siemens and Wheatstone came at an apter time than Hjorth's, and was more conspicuously made.
As a schoolboy he appears to have been an apter pupil of Defoe than of the reverend headmaster of the Norwich academy.
The proper study of mankind is man, and there could not be an apter tutor than Mr. Smalley.
mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- "to grasp, take, reach" (cf. Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.
