adoptionaladj.
/əˈdɒpʃn̩(ə)l/, /əˈdɒpʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /əˈdɑpʃ(ə)nəl/ Of or relating to adoption (in sense 1); that is due to adoption.
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1660 T. Watson Beatitudes 327 The second adoptional privilege is this; if we are children, then God will bear with many infirmities.
1842 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. iii. 211 Leaving them [sc. the Evangelists] to describe severally the natural and the adoptional lines of this, and withholding the descent of the only true parent.
1874 Cleveland (Ohio) Daily Herald 30 Oct. 3/1 Another, who had taken a fine little boy,..writes of his anxiety to have complete adoptional papers made out.
1912 Times 11 Nov. 1/4 With the pre-contract disappeared once and for ever adoptional and spiritual kinship as grounds of nullity.
1998 S. Nambi Psychiatry for Nurses (2008) xv. 79 The case for a genetic basis of schizophrenic disorders has been supported by a variety of studies, including adoptional studies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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