ppl. a. [f. AFFILIATE v. + -ED.] Adopted as a child or fixed in paternity. Usually fig. United in a dependent relation, as the branches of a society to the central organization.
1795. in Monthly Rev., XVI. 528. Soliciting the provincial affiliated societies to separate from the republicans.
1850. Alison, Hist. Europe, VII. xlii. § 35. 117. Surrounding France with a girdle, not of affiliated republics, but of dependent dynasties.
1863. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Monast. Ord., 138. And numbered, within a century after its foundation, 3000 affiliated monasteries.
