Affiliate
Affiliate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: compare French affilier.]
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.
Collocations (1)
Affiliated societies , societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
Affiliate , intransitive verb
To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.