a. [f. L. affīli- (stem of affīliāre: see AFFILIATE) + -ABLE; as if ad. L. *affīliābilis.] Capable of being affiliated on, or causally traced to. Const. on, upon.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ., II. viii. § 69 (1875), 207. Geological processes which these marine currents effect, are affiliable upon the force which the sun radiates. Ibid., II. viii. § 67 (1875), 202. Due to forces affiliable on the like or unlike forces previously existing.
