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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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SYLLABICATION:fil·i·ate
PRONUNCIATION:  fl-t
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: fil·i·at·ed, fil·i·at·ing, fil·i·ates
Law To determine judicially the paternity of (a child born out of wedlock, for example).
ETYMOLOGY:Medieval Latin flire, flit-, to acknowledge as a son, from Latin flius, son. See dh(i)- in Appendix I.
 
 
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