Filiate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Filiate is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter.
Meaning
(transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter.
More Meanings
- (transitive, archaic) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- filiates
- filiating
- filiated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include affiliate, forisfamiliate, father, fellow, adopt, sister.
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