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The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit. Emerson, Nature. filially (fil'yal-i), adv . In a filial manner. There is no servant of God but feares filially . Bp . Hall , Holy Panegyric. filiate (fil'i-at), v. t .; pret. and pp. filiated , ppr. filiating . [ filius , a son, filia , a daughter, + -ate2; cf. affiliate .] 1. To adopt as a son filibuster or daughter; take into filial relation.-2. In law , to determine judicially the paternity of, as a bastard child; hence, to refer to the author or maker. Many parts indeed authenticate themselves, bearing so strong a likene that no one can hesitate at filiating them upon the ips is sim us Luther. Southey , The Doctor, ccxxxi. 3. To establish any analogous close relation between; affiliate. Not only are the sciences as now advanced correlated by innumerable traces of cousinship, but all the past stages of science are filiated by the same ties.