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<hw>Af*fil`i*a"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>affiliation</ets>, LL. <ets>affiliatio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Connection in the way of descent.</def>

<i>H. Spencer.</i>

<h1>Affinal</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fi"nal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>affinis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Related by marriage; from the same source.</def>

<h1>Affine</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fine"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>affiner</ets> to refine; <ets><?/</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>fin</ets> fine. See <er>Fine</er>.]</ety> <def>To refine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Affined</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fined"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>afin\'82</ets> related, p. p., fr. LL. <ets>affinare</ets> to join, fr. L. <ets>affinis</ets> neighboring, related to; <ets>ad + finis</ets> boundary, limit.]</ety> <def>Joined in affinity or by any tie.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "All <i>affined</i> and kin."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Affinitative</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fin"i*ta*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of the nature of affinity.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Af*fin"i*ta*tive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Affinitive</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fin"i*tive</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Closely connected, as by affinity.</def>

<h1>Affinity</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fin"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Affinities</plw><tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OF. <ets>afinit\'82</ets>, F. <ets>affinit\'82</ets>, L. <ets>affinites</ets>, fr. <ets>affinis</ets>. See <er>Affined</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to <i>consanguinity</i>, or relationship by blood; -- followed by <i>with</i>, <i>to</i>, or <i>between</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Solomon made <b>affinity</b> with Pharaoh. <i>1 Kings iii. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; <as>as, the <ex>affinity</ex> of sounds, of colors, or of languages</as>.</def>

<blockquote>There is a close <b>affinity</b> between imposture and credulity. <i>Sir G. C. Lewis.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Companionship; acquaintance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>About forty years past, I began a happy <b>affinity</b> with William Cranmer. <i>Burton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Nat. Hist.)</fld> <def>A relation between species or highe<?/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Spiritualism)</fld> <def>A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.</def>

<h1>Affirm</h1> <Xpage=28>