affiliation

affiliation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.(Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
  2. 2.Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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