filiate
English
Verb
filiate (third-person singular simple present filiates, present participle filiating, simple past and past participle filiated)
- (transitive) To adopt as son or daughter.
- (transitive) To establish filiation between.
- c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]
- The Pope may filiate relics
- c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for filiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Italian
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