1. The action of voluntarily taking into any relation; esp. of taking into sonship.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) V. 213 Pelagius‥seide þat it nedeþ nouȝt to cristene children for to clense hem of synne, but for to worshippe hem wiþ þe sacrament of adopcioun [L. ut sacramento adoptionis honorentur].
1483 Caxton tr. Caton a iiij. The second [kind of cousin] is legale, the whiche cause is by adopcyon.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. of Notes 15. The Lawiers‥define Adoption to be a legitimate act imitating nature, found out for their solace and comfort, which haue no children.
1603 Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 62 Those friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried, Graple them to thee with a hoope of steele.
1755 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. I. viii. 230 The Spirit itself, that is the Spirit of Adoption, which Christians receive, is one Witness.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 18 We are made sons of God by adoption.
b.1644–58 J. Cleveland Gen. Poems (1677) 118 As Chickens are hatcht at Grand Cairo by the Adoption of an Oven.
c. viewed passively, The fact of being so adopted; adopted relation or condition.
2a. The act of taking up and treating as one's own; acceptance, espousal.
b. Philol. (as used in this Dict.) The taking of a word belonging to a foreign language into regular use in our own, without (intentional) change of form; a special instance of this process.
c. passively, The fact of being so taken up and accepted; the being adopted
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