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Affiliate   /əfˈɪliˌeɪt/  /əfˈɪliət/   Listen
verb
Affiliate  v. t.  (past & past part. affiliated; pres. part. affiliating)  
1.
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?"
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.
3.
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?"
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.
Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.



Affiliate  v. i.  To connect or associate one's self; followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Affiliate" Quotes from Famous Books



... experience arises, and the effect of changes in the relations of these factors; still others have sought to cooerdinate the rhythm experience with more general laws of activity in the organism, as the condition of most effective action, and to affiliate its complex phenomena upon simpler laws of physiological activity and repose; while a fourth group has undertaken a description of that historical process which has resulted in the establishment of artistic rhythm-types, and has sought to ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... of Women to meet once every five years was organized with Millicent Garrett Fawcett of England as president, and a National Council to meet every three years was formed as an affiliate with Frances Willard as president and Susan as vice-president at large. Emphasizing education and social and moral reform, the International Council did not rank suffrage first as Susan had hoped. Nevertheless, she was happy that an international movement of enterprising ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... not only been great conjecture among the vicious element, with which I had begun to affiliate myself, but also a very decided checking of all kinds of action calculated to be conspicuous to a ...
— The Rustlers of Pecos County • Zane Grey

... the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth was carried by Peel in the teeth of opposition from half his party: another measure was passed to establish colleges for purely secular teaching ("godless colleges" they were nicknamed) in Cork, Belfast, and Galway, and affiliate them to a ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria

... it has been ascertained that a Wb[)e]n[-o] does not affiliate with others of his class so as to constitute a society, but indulges his pretensions individually. A Wb[)e]n[-o] is primarily prompted by dreams or visions which may occur during his youth, for which purpose he leaves his village to fast for an indefinite ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... energy policy choices, and our development assistance program helps the developing countries to increase indigenous energy production to meet the energy needs of their poorest citizens. We support the proposal for a new World Bank energy affiliate to these same ends, whose fulfillment will contribute to a better global balance between ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... the Aryan family, and showed that the mountains must have been colonised during the successive migrations of the Aryan tribes from Central Asia to the southward. It might perhaps be possible some day to affiliate the various tribes, when the vocabularies had all been collected and compared by a good philological scholar, but at present there was much uncertainty on the subject. Colonel Yule had expressed his pride and satisfaction at Mr. McNair's success, and had congratulated the Society ...
— Memoir of William Watts McNair • J. E. Howard

... Council of Women to meet once every five years was organized with Millicent Garrett Fawcett of England as president, and a National Council to meet every three years was formed as an affiliate with Frances Willard as president and Susan as vice-president at large. Emphasizing education and social and moral reform, the International Council did not rank suffrage first as Susan had hoped. Nevertheless, she was happy that an international ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... Brotherhood was not loved by other organizations. The conductors disliked it, and it had made itself offensive to the firemen because of its persistent refusal to federate or affiliate in any manner with other organizations having similar aims and objects. But now, finding itself in the midst of a hard fight, it evinced a desire to combine. The brakemen refused to join the engine-men, ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman



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