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Hylicist :: Hylicist (n.) A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally..

Mother :: Mother (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting..

Adopting :: Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adop.

Adopt :: Adopt (v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child..

Raphaelite :: Raphaelite (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

Prevalent :: Prevalent (a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions..

Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) 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..

Proposer :: Proposer (n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club..

Adopt :: Adopt (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..

Brumaire :: Brumaire (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

Standardize :: Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders..

Ulterior :: Ulterior (a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain..

Unit :: Unit (n.) 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..

Take :: Take (v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say..

Humanist :: Humanist (n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title..

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