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Accept :: Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].

Proposition :: Proposition (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted..

Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Arrogation :: Arrogation (n.) Adoption of a person of full age.

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Proposer :: Proposer (n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child..

Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

Adrogation :: Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

Espousal :: Espousal (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel..

Volapukist :: Volapukist (n.) One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk..

Agitation :: Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate..

Lobby :: Lobby (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill..

Adopted :: Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word..

Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Recommendation :: Recommendation (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations..

Propose :: Propose (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office..

Christendom :: Christendom (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it..

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