coadjust
English
Etymology
co- + adjust
Verb
coadjust (third-person singular simple present coadjusts, present participle coadjusting, simple past and past participle coadjusted)
- To adjust by mutual adaptations.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
- The tarsal and metatarsal bones are coadjusted so as to form arches both lengthwise and across, and receive the superincumbent weight from the tibia on the summit of a bony vault
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
References
coadjust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913