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/əfˈɪliˌeɪtəd/ /əfˈɪliˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Affiliate v. t. (past & past part. affiliated; pres. part. affiliating)

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?"

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.

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?"

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.

Affiliate v. i. To connect or associate one's self; followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.

adjective

affiliated adj.

Being joined in close association "Affiliated clubs"

Synonyms: attached, connected

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Etymology of 'Affiliated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affiliated" Quotes from Famous Books

... also been made in the preceding chapter of the explanation of the phenomena of magnetism from laws of electricity; the special laws of magnetic agency having been affiliated by deduction to observed laws of electric action, in which they have ever since been considered to be included as special cases. An example not so complete in itself, but even more fertile in consequences, having been the starting-point of ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... or rather Walloon, origin, though for several generations back the family had been settled at Ulm. Perhaps, too, it was Walloon quickness and readiness of wit that had made them, so soon as they became affiliated, so prominent in all the councils of the good free city, and so noted for excellence in art and learning. Indeed the present head of the family, Master Gottfried Sorel, was so much esteemed for his learning that he had once had serious ...

— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Ontario now have become affiliated with the Canadian Council of Agriculture,[4] the inter-provincial body of the organized farmers of Canada. The farmers of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec are showing much interest and have sought to have the Movement extended. Meetings have been held ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... ceremony such as the present, celebrating the erection of new buildings for a college, free to all, but under Presbyterian direction. The same enlightened feeling has prevailed in the west, where, having a free course, you have instituted a university to which all colleges are affiliated. ...

— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

... bap ka beta, the sons of one father, to combat with the emperor of Delhi; and remarks: "What a sensation does it not excite when we know that a sentiment of kindred pervades every individual of this immense affiliated body, who can point out in the great tree the branch of his origin, of which not one is too remote from the main stem to forget his ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

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