Adrogation

Quick meaning: Adrogation is a noun meaning A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome.

Meaning

A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome.

Example Sentences

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 connected with his gentile rites, when he lost his gens, that is, when he was adrogated, adopted, or even emancipated; for adrogation, adoption, and emancipation were accompanied by a diminutio capitis.

Word Forms

• adrogations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ampliatio, rogation, adoption, obrogation, adjection, supplication.

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