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| Adoption |  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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| Adoption | 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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| Adoption | The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. |
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| Adoptionist | One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. | n. |