Bible Dictionaries
Affiliation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

(2):

(n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

(3):

(n.) Connection in the way of descent.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Affiliation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/affiliation.html. 1828.