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adopted, ppl. a.|əˈdɒptɪd|
[f. adopt + -ed.]
1. a. Taken voluntarily or admitted into any relationship not formerly occupied; esp. that of a child.
c1590Greene Friar Bacon ix. 204, I accept thee here Without suspence as my adopted son. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. ii. 246 To be adopted heire to Fredricke. 1741Middleton Cicero (1742) II. vi. 65 The only instances of Foreigners, and adopted Citizens who had ever advanced themselves to either of those honors. 1823Lamb Elia ii. vii. (1865) 277 An adopted denizen of the sea.
b. spec. of a road (cf. adopt v. 2 b).
1938Times 31 May (Building Soc. No.) ix/3 Roads are either adopted or unadopted. 1951E. Barker Princ. Soc. & Polit. Theory ii. iii. 50 An ‘adopted’ road is incorporated into the road system of a town.
2. Taken up or chosen as one's own; assumed.
1660Dryden Astr. Red. 70 These virtues Galba in a stranger sought, And Piso to adopted empire brought. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. §11, 184 Their [the Romans'] Music and Poetry was always borrowed and adopted. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. II. x. 458 Gisa does not seem very warm in his patriotism for his adopted country. Mod. Rose, though an adopted word, is now as familiar as daisy. |