The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affiliate \Af*fil"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating.] [LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier.]
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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. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
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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?
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of affiliate English)
Usage examples of "affiliating".
I still recall the day that your dear mother approached me about affiliating the United Mithraic Order with E.
Recognizing the power of affiliating with a giant chain, Carrol's president David J.
Many of the various National Guards have already written to Paris for the purpose of affiliating themselves with the National Guard there.
In the States, particularly on the west coast, local gangs of American thugs started affiliating themselves with the Asian gangs coming in, running drugs, prostitution, and gambling.