Adopt

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 19

a-dopf, v. t. To select and take as one's own when not so before.— Adopt'er, n. One who adopts. (Chem.) A receiver with two necks. — Adoption, n. Act of, cr state of being, etc.; receiving as one's own what is not natural. (Theol.) Man s acceptance, through God's grace, on justifuation by faith.