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Word Meanings - ADOPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,

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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. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. 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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  • CHOICELY
    1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
  • ALTERNATIVENESS
    The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
  • CHOICEFUL
    Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
  • GATHERER
    An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
  • ELECTIONEERER
    One who electioneers.
  • OPTIONALLY
    In an optional manner.
  • GATHERABLE
    Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
  • ALTERNATIVE
    1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. Holland.
  • ELECTIONEER
    To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
  • OPTION
    A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845. (more info) 1. The
  • GATHER
    To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
  • ADOPTIONIST
    One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
  • ELECTION
    Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
  • OPTIONAL
    Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n.
  • SELECTION
    The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
  • 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. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,
  • CHOICE
    choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to 1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another;
  • ALTERNATIVELY
    In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
  • CHOICENESS
    The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
  • SEGREGATION
    Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. (more info) 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
  • MEGATHEROID
    One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
  • TAXGATHERER
    One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
  • PRELECTION
    A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
  • UPGATHER
    To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
  • HOBSON'S CHOICE
    A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the
  • MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
    An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
  • REELECTION
    Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.

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