Definition of "filiate" in İngilizce

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To adopt as son or daughter.

   • 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.

2. (transitive, archaic) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).

   • The Pope may filiate relics