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Filiation

Filiation Meaning & Definition
Filiation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Filiation?

[n] inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
[n] the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Synonyms | Synonyms for Filiation: ancestry | derivation | descent | line of descent | lineage | lineage

Related Terms | Find terms related to Filiation: accord | addition | adjunct | affairs | affiliation | affinity | agnation | alliance | ancestry | apparentation | approximation | array | articulation | assemblage | association | bank | birth | blood | blood relationship | bloodline | bond | branch | breed | brotherhood | brothership | buzz | catena | catenation | chain | chain reaction | chaining | closeness | cognation | combination | common ancestry | common descent | concatenation | connectedness | connection | consanguinity | consecution | contiguity | continuum | contrariety | course | cousinhood | cousinship | cycle | dealings | deduction | derivation | descent | direct line | disjunction | distaff side | drone | enation | endless belt | endless round | extraction | family | fatherhood | female line | file | fraternity | gamut | gradation | homology | house | hum | Indian file | intercourse | intimacy | junction | kindred | kinship | liaison | line | line of descent | lineage | link | linkage | linking | male line | maternity | matrilineage | matriliny | matrisib | matrocliny | monotone | motherhood | mutual attraction | nearness | nexus | offset | offshoot | paternity | patrilineage | patriliny | patrisib | patrocliny | pendulum | periodicity | phylum | plenum | powder train | progression | propinquity | proximity | queue | race | range | rank | rapport | recurrence | relatedness | relation | relations | relationship | reticulation | rotation | round | routine | row | run | scale | seed | sept | sequence | series | shoot | sibship | side | similarity | single file | sisterhood | sistership | spear side | spectrum | spindle side | sprout | stem | stirps | stock | strain | string | succession | swath | sword side | sympathy | thread | tie | tie-in | tier | ties of blood | train | union | windrow

See Also | bilateral descent | bloodline | breed | descent | extraction | family relationship | hereditary pattern | inheritance | kinship | origin | pedigree | relationship | strain | unilateral descent

Filiation In Webster's Dictionary

\Fil`i*a"tion\, n. [LL. filiatio, fr. L. filius son: cf. F. filiation. See {Filial}.] 1. The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. The relation of paternity and filiation. --Sir M. Hale. 2. (Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation. --Smart.
\Fil`i*a"tion\, n. 1. Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language. 2. One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.

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