AFFILIATE

AFFIL'IATE, verb transitive [Latin ad and filius, a son.]1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son.2. To receive into a society as a member, and initiate in its mysteries, plans, or intrigues - a sense in which the word was much used by the Jacobins in France, during the revolution.

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Af‐fil″i‐ate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affiliated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating (�).] [[LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier.]] 1. 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? I. Taylor. 2. 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. 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? H. Spencer. 4. 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.