Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adopt as a son or daughter; take into filial relation.
- In law, to determine judicially the paternity of, as a bastard child; hence, to refer to the author or maker.
- To establish any analogous close relation between; affiliate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
adopt asson ordaughter . - verb To
establish filiation between.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fix the paternity of
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Examples
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMA.E: A.filiate CTV reports an A. Jenkins has a car similar to the one reportedly seen at the motel when Jenkins checked in.
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But I return from this digression on the peril of idolatry, to which as well the theory as the practice of {244} the Roman Catholic Church exposes her members; and willingly repeat my disclaimer of any wish or intention whatever to fasten and filiate upon the Church of Rome the doctrines or the practice of individuals, or even of different sections of her communion.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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( "G. Barbosa") to an af - filiate of ACON Investments, a US-based investment firm.
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Jtioned hunt j but when Metcalf accompa - nied the gentlemen from the Coney - Garths to the village of Scrivcn, be there heard, on the authority of the landlord of the inn, that a woman bad gone that day to filiate a child to him.
The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough: With ... Anecdotes of His ... 1795
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Robbins Umeda LLP A.nounces an Investigation of the A.quisition of PLA.O Learning, Inc. by an A.filiate of Thoma Bravo, LLC Levi
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