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Webster 1913 Edition
Affiliation
Af-filˊi-a′tion
,Noun.
[F.
affiliation
, LL. affiliatio
.] 1.
Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
2.
(Law)
The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
3.
Connection in the way of descent.
H. Spencer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Affiliation
AFFILIA'TION
,Noun.