The Accidental Dictionary Quotes

“When it first appeared in the language in the early seventeenth century, affiliate meant ‘to adopt a child’ – or, as the English lexicographer Henry Cockeram defined it in his brilliantly titled English Dictionarie, or an Interpreter of Hard English Words (1623), ‘to choose one for his son’. This original meaning steadily developed”
― Paul Anthony Jones, The Accidental Dictionary