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adoption
(mass) | adoption
- prijatie, adopcia, osvojenie |
adoption
(encz) | adoption,adopce |
adoption
(encz) | adoption,adoptování n: Zdeněk Brož |
adoption
(encz) | adoption,odhlasování |
adoption
(encz) | adoption,převzetí n: Zdeněk Brož |
adoption
(encz) | adoption,přijetí |
Adoption
(gcide) | Adoption \A*dop"tion\, n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to
adopt: cf. F. adoption.]
1. 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.
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2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of
one society into another.
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3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of
opinions. --Jer. Taylor.
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adoption
(wn) | adoption
n 1: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;
"its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide
acceptance" [syn: adoption, acceptance, acceptation,
espousal]
2: a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation
between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is
entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of
the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
3: the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another
source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
[syn: borrowing, adoption] |
ADOPTION
(bouvier) | ADOPTION, civil law. The act by which a person chooses another from a
strange family, to have all the rights of his own child. Merl. Repert. h.t.;
Dig. 1, 7, 15, 1; and see Arrogation. By art. 232, of the civil code of
Louisiana, it is abolished in that state. It never was in use in any other
of the United States.
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Adoption
(gcide) | Adoption \A*dop"tion\, n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to
adopt: cf. F. adoption.]
1. 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.
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2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of
one society into another.
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3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of
opinions. --Jer. Taylor.
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Adoptionist
(gcide) | Adoptionist \A*dop"tion*ist\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God
not by nature but by adoption.
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ADOPTION
(bouvier) | ADOPTION, civil law. The act by which a person chooses another from a
strange family, to have all the rights of his own child. Merl. Repert. h.t.;
Dig. 1, 7, 15, 1; and see Arrogation. By art. 232, of the civil code of
Louisiana, it is abolished in that state. It never was in use in any other
of the United States.
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