filiate

Verb

filiate (third-person singular simple present filiates, present participle filiating, simple past and past participle filiated)

1. (archaic, transitive) 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.January 20 1759, Laurence Sterne, To —, Esq; of York (a letter)
2. (archaic, transitive) To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
   • The Pope may filiate relicsc. 1850, Robert Southey, [untitled work]
   • I shall, therefore, invite you to consider, as a suggestive analogy, the action which takes place when a bit of finely filiated platinum is introduced into a chamber containing oxygen and sulphur dioxide.1917, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood