filiate

English

Verb

filiate (third-person singular simple present filiates, present participle filiating, simple past and past participle filiated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter.
   • January 20 1759, Laurence Sterne, To — , Esq; of York (a letter)

     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. (transitive, archaic) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
   • c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]

     The Pope may filiate relics

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

     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.

References

• “filiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Verb

filiate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of filare

Spanish

Verb

filiate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of filiar combined with te