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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.





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"Affiliate" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Affiliate" :   fall in, go steady, go out, join, organisation, consort, date, organization, companion, get together, assort, company, associate, affiliation, keep company, ally, see


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