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affiliated, ppl. a.|əˈfɪlɪeɪtɪd|
[f. affiliate v. + -ed.]
Adopted as a child or fixed in paternity. Usually fig. United in a dependent relation, as the branches of a society to the central organization.
1795in Monthly Rev. XVI. 528 Soliciting the provincial affiliated societies to separate from the republicans. 1850Alison Hist. Europe VII. xlii. §35. 117 Surrounding France with a girdle, not of affiliated republics, but of dependent dynasties. 1863A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. 138 And numbered, within a century after its foundation, 3000 affiliated monasteries. |