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 Ades’te Fide’lës.Adha, al (the slit-eared). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Adfil’iate, Adfilia’tion.
 
The ancient Goths adopted the children of a former marriage, and put them on the same footing as those of the new family. (Latin, ad-filius, equal to a real son.)   1
 


 Ades’te Fide’lës.Adha, al (the slit-eared). 

 
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