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▪ I. affiliate, v.|əˈfɪlɪeɪt|
[f. L. affīliāt- ppl. stem of affīliā-re to adopt; f. af- = ad- to + fīli-us a son; app. in imitation of mod.Fr. affilier (ad. affīliāre).]
I. Of adopting into the position of a child.
1. To adopt as a child: but always fig. of a parent institution adopting or attaching others to itself as branches, or of a society adopting a member.
1797W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXIII. 530 The sophists of rebellion..affiliated an antient sect, the machinations of which formed the secrets of the arrere or occult lodges of free masonry. 1860Times 30 Nov. 6/5 Why does not the great firm..affiliate provincial tan-yards?
2. a. To attach a smaller institution to, or connect it with, a larger one as a branch thereof; to unite or attach a member formally to a society. Const. to, with, according as the idea of filial union, or connexion, is thought of.
1761Smollett Gil Blas i. i. (Routl.) 171 The very sharpers with whom I had been affiliated at Toledo. 1794W. Burke in Burke's Wks. 1842 VII. 318 The great patriarchal jacobiniere of Paris, to which they were (to use their own term) affiliated. 1880M. L. Meason in Macm. Mag. 426 Ampleforth has only been affiliated to the London University during the last four years.
b. refl.
1866Spect. 1 Dec. 1332 That colleges..be allowed to affiliate themselves to the University of Oxford.
c. intr. (refl. pron. omitted.) To connect or associate oneself with; to rank oneself under the banners of.
1860Times 28 Nov. 10/1 The party in the South that affiliates with the Republicans. 1879Tourgee Fool's Errand xxi. 125 To affiliate somewhat coolly with the party of reconstruction.
II. Of imputing or fixing as the child.
3. Law. To fix the paternity of an illegitimate child on the putative father (for the purpose of maintenance). In this sense apparently introduced by the Act cited below; the term in previous Acts was filiate. Hence gen. To refer or ascribe (a child) to its proper parent.
1834Act 4 & 5 Will. IV, lxxvi. §69 To charge or affiliate any such Child or Children on any Person as the reputed or putative Father thereof. 1836W. Robinson Justice of Peace ii. vi. 539 In that year a bastard child was affiliated upon him. 1844A. S. Taylor Med. Jurisp. lxix, There would be no medical ground for affiliating the child to one man rather than the other. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi vi. (1870) 172 Sarpedon, who is directly affiliated to Zeus.
4. fig. To father on or upon, attribute to, trace origin to.
1844H. Rogers Ess. I. ii. 84 The compositions which Captain Thomson's indiscriminate admiration would fain have affiliated to his muse. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) I. iii. iv. 311 How do these facts..affiliate the faculty of hearing on the primary vital processes? 1872E. Robertson Hist. Ess. 194 Our venerable Abbey of Westminster, when..in search of a pedigree, sought to affiliate itself upon the Archbishop [Dunstan].
▪ II. affiliate, ppl. a. and n.|aˈfɪlɪət|
[ad. L. affīliātus pa. pple. of affīliā-re to adopt: see prec.]
A. adj. Affiliated, received into intimate connexion.
1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 492 The much befriended man, The man almost affiliate to the church.
B. n. A recognized auxiliary, as an affiliated organization, company, etc.
1879Tourgee Fool's Errand xxi. 126 Scorn for their associates and affiliates of the North. 1930Economist 4 Oct. 608/1 The establishment of German bank ‘affiliates’ has also helped considerably the development of the Amsterdam bill market. 1931G. T. Cartinhour Branch, Group & Chain Banking v. 74 Control of a number of banks may be exercised directly or indirectly by a particular bank through a security affiliate as well as a holding company. 1953Economist 18 July 189/1 Two affiliates of the internationally owned Iraq Petroleum Company. |