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filiate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb filiate has 1 sense
- filiate(v = verb.cognition) Array - fix the paternity of; "The court filiated the child born out of wedlock" is one way to determine, set
Derived form noun filiation1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
filiate, v. t.
To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. Southey. [1913 Webster]
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