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Definition of Filiate
1. Verb. Fix the paternity of. "The court filiated the child born out of wedlock"
Generic synonyms: Determine, Set
Derivative terms: Filiation
Definition of Filiate
1. v. t. To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
Definition of Filiate
1. Verb. To adopt as son or daughter. ¹
2. Verb. To establish filiation between. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Filiate
1. to bring into close association [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filiate
Literary usage of Filiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Akènes naked, at least not strongly filiate : leaves usually opposite or the
upper alternat«1, broad, usually serrate, sometimes 3-5-lobed, ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"bearing filiate branches. The labial palpus is primarily divided into four
branches, two of which, the first and third, are again divided ; all with filiate ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1835)
"An alteration in it was imperiously demanded, especially so far as related to
women being compelled to filiate their children ou some man or other, ..."
4. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Outer plume sessile the other ou a rather long pedicel, or rarely solitary or
both minute or obsolete, the 2nd and 3rd membranous, rather acute, filiate, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: During by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1831)
"There the woman was committed for refusing to filiate her bastard child. It was
assumed that the commitment had been made, under either the 18 I'./i:., c. ..."
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