| 释义 |
adoptively, adv.|əˈdɒptɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + ly2.]
In an adoptive manner; by way of adoption.
1844Maitland Dark Ages 482 For it is one thing to be so [i.e. one with God] adoptively, and another to be so substantially. 1844B. Thorpe ælfric's Hom. I. 259 God, the Father Almighty, has one Son naturally, and many adoptively [A. Sax. gewiscendlice]. |