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Webster 1913 Edition
Affiliate
Af-fil′i-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Affiliated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Affiliating
.] [LL.
adfiliare
, affiliare
, to adopt as son; ad
+ filius
son: cf. F. affilier
.] 1.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Is the soul
affiliated
to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion? I. Taylor.
2.
To fix the paternity of; – said of an illegitimate child;
as, to
. affiliate
the child to
(or on
or upon
) one man rather than another3.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
How do these facts tend to
affiliate
the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes? H. Spencer.
4.
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; – followed by to or with.
Affiliated societies
, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
Af-fil′i-ate
,Verb.
I.
To connect or associate one’s self; – followed by with;
as, they
. affiliate
with no partyWebster 1828 Edition
Affiliate
AFFIL'IATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son.2.
To receive into a society as a member, and initiate in its mysteries, plans, or intrigues - a sense in which the word was much used by the Jacobins in France, during the revolution.