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Sadducize :: Sadducize (v. i.) To adopt the principles of the Sadducees.

Echo :: Echo (v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

Pursue :: Pursue (v. t.) To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law..

Wigwag :: Wigwag (v. t.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis..

Stichwort :: Stichometry (n.) Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted..

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..

Franc :: Franc (a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes..

Naturalize :: Naturalize (v. t.) To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words..

Christianize :: Christianize (v. i.) To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.

Adapter :: Adapter (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.

Adopted :: Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word..

Denizen :: Denizen (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..

Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) One who adopts.

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Propose :: Propose (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office..

Denization :: Denization (n.) The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

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