adoptious

adj

adj

Etymology From adopt + -ious.

Obsolete Adopted.

[…] with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, That blinking Cupid gossips.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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