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Adonis
(n.)
A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
Adonis
(n.)
A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing
the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose
blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Adonist
(n.)
One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word
translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai."
See Jehovist.
Adonize
(v. t.)
To beautify; to dandify.
Alt. of Adoors
At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
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.
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.
Adoptable
(a.)
Capable of being adopted.
Adopted
(imp. & p. p.)
of Adopt
Adopted
(a.)
Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted
son, citizen, country, word.
Adopter
(n.)
One who adopts.
Adopter
(n.)
A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of
which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another
receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic
vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two
vessels whose openings have different diameters.
Adopting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Adopt
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.
Adoption
(n.)
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society
into another.
Adoption
(n.)
The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Adoptionist
(n.)
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son
of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious
(a.)
Adopted.
Adoptive
(a.)
Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption;
fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive
language.