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Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

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Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

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Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…

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One who, or that which, relieves.

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One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.

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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

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To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a represen…

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To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

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The act of replacing.

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