adoptious

English

Etymology

From adopt +‎ -ious.

Adjective

adoptious (comparative more adoptious, superlative most adoptious)

1. (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.