adrogatorn.
/ˈadrəɡeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈædrəˌɡeɪdər/ Roman Law.
A person who adrogates. Cf. arrogator n. 2.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > adoptive or foster relationship > adoption > adoption of one who is his own master > one who practises
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1854 P. Cumin Man. Civil Law 227 The adrogator..acquired no property..unless the adrogatus died in the adopted family, leaving no descendant brother or sister.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 40 If a man who himself has children in his potestas give himself in adrogation, not only does he himself become subject to the potestas of the adrogator, but his children do so too in the character of grandchildren.
1989 Phoenix 43 246 If the adrogation was regular..it would normally have been with the patron as adrogator.
2009 Oxf. Internat. Encycl. Legal Hist. (Electronic text) at Persons: Roman Law The adrogator had to be childless and incapable of having children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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