filiate

Verb

 * 1)  To adopt as son or daughter.
 * 2) * January 20 1759,, To — , Esq; of York (a letter)''
 * instead of making you the Request I intended, I do here desire That the Child be filiated upon me, Laurence Sterne, Prebendary of York, &c. &c. And I do, accordingly, own it for my own true and lawful Offspring.
 * 1)  To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).
 * 2) * c. 1850,, [untitled work]
 * The Pope may filiate relics