Vocabulary : Adoors to Adoptive

Adoors : At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
Adopt : 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. ;; 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.
Adoptable : Capable of being adopted.
Adopted : of Adopt ;; Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
Adopter : One who adopts. ;; 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.

Adopting : of Adopt
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. ;; Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. ;; The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Adoptionist : One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious : Adopted.
Adoptive : Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

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