orienate

To orientate (oneself/something), be able not to get lost.

He sat up amid the melting ephialtes, stared at the woman and tried to orienate himself.

Standing by the skeleton foundations, it is easy to orienate the old tragedy and to say with approximate accuracy, "There stood Wild Bill wher ^([sic]) the fight began;" " On this spot McCanles fell;" " There Woods stumbled to his death;" and "Yonder toward the old bridge, the doomed and wounded Gordon staggered in flight."

To change (or make something change) for or get accustomed (or make something get accustomed) to a new situation, adapt.

We may also discern that Mary picks up something of a possible rebuke as, in her final turn, she orienate directly to this contrast between *then' and ' now' by identifying Jean and Mary as "you' - [...]

"...a militant party, a revolutionary party, bold enongh to lead the proletarians to the struggle for power, with sufficient experience to be able to orienate itself in the complicated problems that arise in a revolutionary situation [...]

To point (something) in a particular direction.

For in every respect the author's approach and treatment are soundly calculated to develop a mentality, to orienate a spirituality, that will be nothing if not wholesome and traditional.

[...]; but, apart from the general tendency on the part of the Government to orienate their economy in the direction of the latter country, the reason for this preference is threefold, [...]