What does filiate mean?
Filiate means (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter..
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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Filiate means (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter..
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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.
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