affiliating
verb
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To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
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To bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
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(said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
"to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another"
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To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
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(followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.