affiliated
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to
bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
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Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged
and in rebellion? --I. Taylor.
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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 another.
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3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
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How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of
hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
--H. Spencer.
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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.
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{Affiliated societies}, societies connected with a central
society, or with each other.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "affiliated":
affiliate, agnate, akin, allied, associate, associated, attached,
avuncular, bound, bracketed, cabalistic, closely related, cognate,
collateral, combined, confederate, confederated, congeneric,
conjugate, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine,
consanguinean, consanguineous, conspiratorial, corporate,
correlated, coupled, distantly related, enate, enleagued, federate,
federated, foster, german, germane, implicated, in cahoots,
in league, in partnership, in with, incident, interlinked,
interlocked, interrelated, involved, joined, kindred, knotted,
leagued, linked, married, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous,
novercal, of that ilk, of that kind, of the blood, paired,
parallel, partners with, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous,
related, sib, sibling, spliced, teamed, tied, twinned, united,
uterine, wed, wedded, yoked
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