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

t and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Capable of being adopted.

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.

Adopted. [Obs.]

pact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Art…

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

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.

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…

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

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.

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.

three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

nsport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness…

An artificial language, intended to be universal, devised by Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym "Dr. Esperanto" in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in 1887. The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common to the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any one language are elimi…