adrogation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADROGA'TION, noun [Latin ad and rogo, to ask. See Interrogate and Rogation.] A species of adoption in ancient Rome, by which a person, capable of choosing for himself, was admitted into the relation of a son. So called from the questions put to the parties.
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