Word Meanings - READOPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To adopt again. Young.
Related words: (words related to READOPT)
- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - ADOPT
1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - YOUNG ONE
A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - ADOPTER
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 - ADOPTED
Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv. - ADOPTIONIST
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. - YOUNGLING
A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar - YOUNGGER
One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - READOPT
To adopt again. Young.