APage 125
- English Word Adoor Definition Alt. of Adoors
- English Word Adoors Definition At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
- English Word Adopt Definition To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- English Word Adopt Definition To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
- English Word Adoptable Definition Capable of being adopted.
- English Word Adopted Definition of Adopt
- English Word Adopted Definition Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
- English Word Adopter Definition One who adopts.
- English Word Adopter Definition 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 retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
- English Word Adopting Definition of Adopt
- English Word Adoption Definition 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.
- English Word Adoption Definition Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
- English Word Adoption Definition The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
- English Word Adoptionist Definition One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
- English Word Adoptious Definition Adopted.
- English Word Adoptive Definition Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
- English Word Adorability Definition Adorableness.
- English Word Adorable Definition Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
- English Word Adorable Definition Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
- English Word Adorableness Definition The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.