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Definition of Adoptive
1. Adjective. Of parents and children; related by adoption. "Adoptive parents"
2. Adjective. Acquired as your own by free choice. "An adoptive country"
Definition of Adoptive
1. a. Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
Definition of Adoptive
1. Adjective. Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adoptive
1. adoption [adj] - See also: adoption
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoptive
Literary usage of Adoptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars, Emperor of the East Justinian (1917)
"The adoptive father was not, however, bound, like the natural father (Bk. ii.
Tit. 18), to leave him a share of his property, if he made a will. ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1892)
"The adoptive Emperors who followed the Flavian adoptive dynasty conferred upon
the Empire the inestimable AD boon of nearly a century of internal peace ..."
3. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"By receiving such into the adoptive Circle of our membership we shall attach them
to the general movement, facilitate their progress, afford them needful ..."
4. Substitute Care Providers: Helping Abused & Neglected Chldren by Kenneth Watson (1994)
"Most prospective foster and adoptive parents are shocked that such terrible ...
Foster and adoptive parents must reconcile their own feelings before they ..."
5. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"... among the dark-coloured Mediterranean populations. 3. The adoptive ...
who followed the Flavian adoptive dynasty conferred upon the Empire the ..."
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