filiate

present singular third person filiates · participle present filiating · participle past filiated · past filiated

1. archaictransitiveTo 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.

   January 20 1759, Laurence Sterne, To —, Esq; of York (a letter)

2. archaictransitiveTo establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).

   The Pope may filiate relics

   c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]

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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 dioxide.

   1917, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood