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a1425 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 1900) (1879) VII. 510 The holy kyng Edward..made William Norman his sone adoptivus [L. Willelmum Normannum adoptavit].]

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2884 Dede was the bodily son be verray deth corporele, So was the son adoptif be the deth spirituele.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 842 (MED) In order cam Piso..Sone adoptiff..Of saide Galba.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. X.viij She is thy mother adoptiue, and my natural wife.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie viii. 31 Those Romaines therefore, vsed onelye in the front of their Letters to write firste their owne names, titles adoptiue and surnames.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 12 A Henne that faine would hatch a brood, (Some of her owne, some of adoptiue blood).

1743 M. Towers tr. Horace Lyric Pieces II. 59 (note) Terentia..was her proper Name by her Family, and Licinia her adoptive Name.

1798 H. T. Colebrooke tr. J. Tarkapañcānana Digest Hindu Law III. v. iv. 227 Sons inferior to these..claim the family of their adoptive father.

1805 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 18 May 742/1 That the throne of Italy be hereditary from male to male, in the direct and legitimate line natural and adoptive.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. 710 That the adoptive brother should be preferred to the brother by blood.

1935 R. F. Fortune Manus Relig. iii. 92 The mere fact of the dual allowance of blood ties and adoptive ties in Manus makes possible a wide range within which two households may make a marriage-contract.

1989 M. Dorris Broken Cord viii. 125 The decision to become an adoptive father was the part of my past about which I had never harbored a regret or a second thought.

2011 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 22 May 18 Illinois keeps an adoption registry where both adoptees and adoptive parents can register to be matched later on with each other.