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points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

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.

Capable of being adopted.

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

One who adopts.

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.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adopted. [Obs.]

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.

Adorableness.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

In an adorable manner.

rship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

onor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

With adoration.