Adonis (adonis)

[L. Adonis, of adopt are: see adopt.] To adopt. adoptative (a-dop'ta-tiv), a. [L. adopt at us, pp. of adopt are (see adopt ), + -ive.] Same as adoptive. [Rare.] adoptedlyt (a-dop'ted-li), adv. By adoption. Lucio. Is she your cousin? Isab. Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names. Shak., M. for M., i. 5. wild boar, but was permitted by Zeus to pa four months every year in the lower world, adopts. four with Aphrodite, and four where he chose. adopt i an (a-dop's han), a. [ Adopt i an i , The name, like the myth, is of Phenic i an or i the adopt i an heretics, irreg. adoptarc : see gin, akin to Heb. adōn , lord: see Adonai .] 1. adopt .] In theol ., of or pertaining to the doc- A beau; a dandy; an exquisite: as, he is quite an Adonis.-2. In bot., a genus of European plants belonging to the natural order Ranuncu lace a. In the corn-adonis, or pheasant's-eye, A. autum nalis, the petals are bright scarlet, and are considered as emblematical of the blood of Adonis, from which the plant is fabled to have sprung. 3t. [l. c.] A kind of wig formerly worn. He puts on a fine flowing adonis or white periwig. R. Graves, Spirit. Quixote, III. xix.