Meaning of filiate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To adopt as son or daughter.
   archaic, transitive
2. To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
   archaic, transitive

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Examples

“instead of making you the Request I intended, I do here desire That the Child be filiated upon me, Laurence Sterne, Prebendary of York, &c. &c. And I do, accordingly, own it for my own true and lawful Offspring.”

“The Pope may filiate relics”

“I shall, therefore, invite you to consider, as a suggestive analogy, the action which takes place when a bit of finely filiated platinum is introduced into a chamber containing oxygen and sulphur dioxide.”

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