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filiates

filiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filiate.

Meaning of 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]

Questions about filiates

What is filiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Filiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filiate.

Words near filiates in the dictionary

  1. filialness
  2. filiariasis
  3. filiarisis
  4. filiate
  5. filiated
  6. filiates
  7. filiating
  8. filiation
  9. filiations
  10. Filiași
  11. filibeg

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