- Acceptance (of policy) - Permanent fostering - Taking on - Taking up - 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. - Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society
into another. - The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
- Christian sacrament - Religous rite - Ritualised celebration of the Lord's Supper - The act of sharing; community; participation. - Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate
association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence;
interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the
communion of saints. - A body of Christians having one common faith and
discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion. - The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the
Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to
communion; to partake of the communion.
- Person known less intimately than a friend - A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate,
or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge
gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I
know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. - A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.