Filiate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To adopt as son or daughter. archaic, transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    fix the paternity of wordnet
  3. 3
    To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses). archaic, transitive

    "The Pope may filiate relics"

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filamentatefilamentizehyphalizemyceliate

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"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."

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