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The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.

To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

to many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

ixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.…

The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It…

n, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.

The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] Shak.

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.

a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are c…

The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. Campbell.

f the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

loyed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier.