adoptivelyadv.
/əˈdɒptɪvli/, U.S. /əˈdɑptɪvli/ In an adoptive manner (in various senses of the adjective); by adoption; involving adoptive processes. With quot. 1776 cf. adopt v. 5.
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1616 J. Speed Clowd of Witnesses vi. 53 You may see how Ioseph is forced to bee naturally from Salomon, and adoptiuely from Nathan.
1712 J. Knight Primitive Christianity Vindicated. 46 The Word or Spirit was first united to the Body of Christ, thro' whom it was to be adoptively united to the Bodies of the Faithful.
1776 G. Ogilvie Carolina (?1790) ii. 53 Clasp'd in th'embraces of the wounded rhind, The stranger bud's adoptively combin'd.
1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 482 For it is one thing to be so [i.e. one with God] adoptively, and another to be so substantially.
1893 Academy 30 Dec. 587/3 To borrow the felicitous neologism adoptively sanctioned by Prof. Matthews, let us, above all, be ‘orotund’.
1912 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 631 Gil Blas is only adoptively a Spanish novel.
1954 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 143 59 A third mode of origin of the immune state: adoptively acquired immunity, in which a normal subject becomes immune as a result of the transference, not of preformed antibody, but of immunologically active tissue.
2008 J. M. Burda Gay, Lesbian, & Transgender Clients vi. 125 The formation of a significant relationship between a child and an adult who may be..related to the child biologically or adoptively.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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