Word Meanings - ADOPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

• Adoptionist
  One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
• Childishness
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• Fatherliness
  The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
• CHILDERMASDAY
  A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.
• Adoptious
  Adopted.
• Childlessness
  The state of being childless.
• Father longlegs
  See Daddy longlegs, 2.
• CHILDSTUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• Acquirability
  The quality of being acquirable; attainableness.
• Adoptive
  Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
• Childlike
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
• Fatherly
  Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
• FATHERINLAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• Acquirable
  Capable of being acquired.
• Children
  of Child
• Fathership
  The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
• FATHERLASHER
  A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

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