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 Adoption \A*dop"tion\, n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to
   adopt: cf. F. adoption.]
   1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary
      acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as
      one's own child.
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   2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
      adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of
      one society into another.
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   3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which
      originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of
      opinions. --Jer. Taylor.
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