ADOPT

ADOPT', verb transitive [Latin adopto, of ad and opto, to desire or choose. See Option.]1. To take a stranger into one's family, as son and heir; to take one who is not a child, and treat him as one, giving him a title to the privileges and rights of a child.2. In a spiritual sense, to receive the sinful children of men into the invisible church, and into God's favor and protection, by which they become heirs of salvation by Christ.3. To take or receive as one's own, that which is not naturally so; as, to adopt the opinions of another; or to receive that which is new; as, to adopt a particular mode of husbandry.4. To select and take; as, which mode will you adopt?

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adopt. adopt, to take for his child, freely to choose

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adopt. Adopt, v.t. to take as one's own what is another's, to copy, select and take

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A‐dopt″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting.] [[L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.]] 1. 1. 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.
2. 2. 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.