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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..

Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

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

Proposition :: Proposition (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted..

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

Recommendation :: Recommendation (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

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

Arrogation :: Arrogation (n.) Adoption of a person of full age.

Christendom :: Christendom (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it..

Espousal :: Espousal (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel..

Anti-federalist :: Anti-federalist (n.) One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.

Adrogation :: Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Mover :: Mover (n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body..

Accept :: Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].

Yen :: Yen (n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen..

Agitation :: Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate..

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..

Volapukist :: Volapukist (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk..

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

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