filiate

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== English == === Verb === filiate (third-person singular simple present filiates, present participle filiating, simple past and past participle filiated) (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. (transitive, archaic) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses). c. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work] The Pope may filiate relics === References === “filiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Italian == === Verb === filiate second-person plural present subjunctive of filare == Spanish == === Verb === filiate second-person singular voseo imperative of filiar combined with te