adoptious

English

Etymology

adopt +‎ -ious.

Adjective

adoptious (comparative more adoptious, superlative most adoptious)

(obsolete) Adopted.
- 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]:
  […] with a world
  Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
  That blinking Cupid gossips.

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