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Affiliate   /əfˈɪliˌeɪt/  /əfˈɪliət/   Listen
verb
Affiliate  v. t.  (past & past part. affiliated; pres. part. affiliating)  
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?"
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.
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?"
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.



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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Affiliate" Quotes from Famous Books



... or pressure groups: Costa Rican Confederation of Democratic Workers (CCTD, Liberation Party affiliate); Confederated Union of Workers (CUT, Communist Party affiliate); Authentic Confederation of Democratic Workers (CATD, Communist Party affiliate); Chamber of Coffee Growers; National Association for Economic Development (ANFE); Free Costa Rica Movement (MCRL, rightwing militants); National ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... hire a man to do it for him, but he said, "Hennery, here is where your Pa has got to make good, or these cowboys won't affiliate. You take my watch and roll, 'cause no one can tell where a fellow will land when he gets his steer," and I took pa's valuables and the boys brought up the buckskin horse, which smelled of Pa and snorted, and didn't seem to want Pa to get on, but they held the horse by ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... acerbity, acetic, achromatic, acidulous, acme, acolyte, acoustics, acquiescence, acquisitive, acrimonious, acumen, adage, adamantine, addict, adduce, adhesive, adipose, adjudicate, adolescence, adulation, adulterate, advent, adventitious, aerial, affability, affidavit, affiliate, affinity, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggrandizement, agnostic, alignment, aliment, allegorical, alleviate, altercation, altruistic, amalgamate, amatory, ambiguity, ambrosial, ameliorate, amenable, amenity, amity, amnesty, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... Christian Science eschews —should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who [10] will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy

... of the Hindu Kush, including the Kafir tongues, were all of the Perso-Indian branch of the Aryan family, and showed that the mountains must have been colonised during the successive migrations of the Aryan tribes from Central Asia to the southward. It might perhaps be possible some day to affiliate the various tribes, when the vocabularies had all been collected and compared by a good philological scholar, but at present there was much uncertainty on the subject. Colonel Yule had expressed his pride ...
— Memoir of William Watts McNair • J. E. Howard


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