Affiliation
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a term used among monks to signify the incorporation of a monk with the particular monastery to which he binds himself. and whose son he thence, forth becomes.