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Definition of Adopts
1. adopt [v] - See also: adopt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adopts
Literary usage of Adopts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to by George Lunt (1866)
"It adopts fully the Compromises of 1850.—The Whig National Convention of that
Year does ... Its "National Council," in 1855, adopts the Compromises of 1850. ..."
2. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"Thomas Ferrell introduces bill—General officers go to Washington to work for
passage of bill—The General Assembly of 1884 adopts an addition to the preamble ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"T.'io Ohio Legislature adopts two temperance amend- ... Illinois adopts the
license system. Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, publishes charges against the ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1901)
"SQUIRE HAWKINS adopts CLAY TOWARD the close of the third day's journey the
wayfarers were just beginning to think of camping, when they came upon a log ..."
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