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In some senses, filiate is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
filiate
verb 2
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1FILIATE + NOUN
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verb
1
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.
2
To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
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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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
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The Pope may filiate relics
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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 diox
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