How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
H. Spencer.
4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with.
Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
Af*fil"i*ate, v. i. To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Af*fil`i*a"tion (&?;), n. [F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio.] 1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.