apt (1 is freq., but hardly passes into the mod. ‘likely, calculated’; the sense ‘fit, suitable’ is also freq.)
1.
ready,
prepared, willing Ado II. i.
215,
H5 II. ii. 86
“how apt our love was to
accord,”
Cæs. III. i. 160
“so apt to die.”
2.
easily impressed,
ready to learn Cor. III. ii.
29, Cæs. V. iii. 68,
Ham. I. v. 31
“I find thee
apt.”
3.
natural
Oth. II. i. 299
“'tis apt, and of great
credit,”
V. ii. 175.
