adrogate

Verb

adrogate (third-person singular simple present adrogates, present participle adrogating, simple past and past participle adrogated)

1. (Ancient-Rome, historical, transitive) To adopt (a free citizen).
   • There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilitia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption, or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges...1848, G[eorge] L[ong], “GENS”, in William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd improved and enlarged edition, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street; and Ivy...