adoptional, a.
(əˈdɒpʃənəl)
[f. prec. + -al1. Cf. nation-al, etc.]
Of or belonging to adoption.
| 1861 W. H. Mill Pantheist. Princ. (ed. 2) 212 Leaving them [the Evangelists] to describe severally the natural and the adoptional lines of this, and withholding the descent of the only true parent. |