filiate

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filiate (third-person singular simple present filiates, present participle filiating, simple past and past participle filiated)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter.
    • January 20 1759, Laurence Sterne, To — , Esq; of York (a letter)
      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. (transitive, archaic) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
    • c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]
      The Pope may filiate relics
    • 1917, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:
      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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Italian

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filiate

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive of filare

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filiate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of filiar combined with te