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English
Etymology
From 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, : with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid gossips.