affile, afile

t. [Fr. affiler; Ital. affilare to sharpen; Sp. afilar: fr. Fr. fil = an edge; Lat. filum = a thread.] To rub, to polish. ( Lit. & fig.) "For when he hath his tonge afiled With soft spec he and with lesynge." Gower: Conf. Amant ., bk. i. *af-fil'-i-a-ble, a. [AFFILIATE.) That may be affiliated; chargeable as a result. (With on or upon .) Affiliable upon the force which the sun radiates." -Herbert Spencer: First Principles , ch. xvii. af-fil-i-ate, v.t. [Fr. affilier , fr. Lat. ad to, and filius = a son.] 1. To adopt into one's family as a son or daughter. 2. To attempt legally to fix the paternity of an illegitimate child on one. hence there would be no medical ground for affiliating the child to one man rather than the other." Taylor: Med. Juris ., ch. lxix. 3. To adopt as a member of a political or other society; or to adopt a society as a branch of a larger and more extensive one with the same aim. " A filiated in every garrison with the Jacobin club." -Ryde: Lamartine's Girondists , bk. 1, § 19. 4. To attribute to. "Upon him, in general, all rites and ceremonies of unknown antiquity were affiliated ."-Lewis: Cred. Early Rom. Hist . , ch. xi., pt. 1, § 13. af-fil-i-a-těd, pa. par. & a. [AFFILIATE.] af-fil-i-a-ting, pr. par. & a. [AFFILIATE.]