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filiating

filiating is the present participle and gerund 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 filiating

What is filiating the present participle and gerund of?
Filiating is the present participle and gerund of filiate.

Words near filiating in the dictionary

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

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