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The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk.
n.
One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.
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Adopted.
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Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
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Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
n.
The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
v. t.
The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
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The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
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Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
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Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
v. t.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
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A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
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One who adopts.
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Capable of being adopted.
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Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
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The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
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