adoption (n.)
- acceptance
- acculturation
- admission
- affiliation
- appropriation
- arrogation
- assimilation
- assumption
- circumcision
- colonization
- conquest
- conversion
- copying
- derivation
- deriving
- embracement
- embracing
- encroachment
- enslavement
- espousal
- imitation
- indent
- infringement
- invasion
- mocking
- nationalization
- naturalization
- occupation
- papers
- pastiche
- plagiarism
- preemption
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- rebirth
- redemption
- reformation
- regeneration
- requisition
- salvation
- seizure
- simulation
- subjugation
- takeover
- taking
- trespass
- usurpation
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
