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

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

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.].

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..

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..

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.

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..

Lobby :: Lobby (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill..

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..

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

Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..

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

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..

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

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

Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..

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..

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..

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

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