affilet

t. [ edge: see file3.] To polish; sharpen. He moste preche and well affyle his tunge. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 714. affiliable (a-fil'i-a-bl), a . [ affili abilis , affiliare : "see affiliate . ] Capable of being affiliated; chargeable as result or effect: with on or upon . The distribution of sediment and other geological proce es which these marine currents effect, are afiliable upon the force which the sun radiates. H. Spencer , First Principles, § 69. affiliate (a-fil'i-at), v .; pret. and pp. affiliated , ppr. affiliating . [ affiliatus , pp. of affili are, adfiliare (> F. affilier ), adopt as a son, ad , to, + filius , son, filia , daughter.] I. trans . 1. To adopt; receive into a family as a son or daughter; hence, to bring into intimate a ociation or close connection. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion? I. Taylor. 2. In law, to fix the paternity of, as a bastard child: with upon: as, the mother affiliated her child upon John Doe. Hence-3. To connect in the way of descent or derivation: with upon. Ethical requirements may here be to such extent affili ated upon physical nece ities, as to give them a partially scientific authority. H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, § 108. 4. To a ociate; receive or establish on terms of fellowship. Men who have a voice in public affairs are at once affil. iated with one or other of the great parties between which society is divided. 1 Lowell , Democracy. He [La alle] hoped the party of progre would affiliate itself with him. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 63. Austria and the affiliated Governments of the Peninsula. E. Dicey , Victor Emmanuel, p. 137. Affiliated societies, local societies connected with a central society or with one another. IMG:content-0349.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In zoöl., joined in natural affinity; having affinity; allied homologically and morphologically; related in structural character. Birds are homologically related, or naturally allied or affined , according to the sum of like structural characters. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 68. affinitative (a-fin'i-ta-tiv), a. [L. affini ta( t- )s, affinity, + -ive . Of the nature of affinity: as, an affinitative resemblance. N. E. D. affinitatively (a-fin'i-ta-tiv-li), adv . By means of affinity; as regards affinity.