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Adopt
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(1):
(v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
(2):
(v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Adopt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/adopt.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Adopt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/adopt.html. 1828.
