ppl. a. [ad. Fr. affiné, f. affin, see AFFINE a.; with Eng. ppl. ending -ED. No Fr. affiner or Eng. vb. affine existed in this sense.]

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  1.  Joined in affinity; related, connected.

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1597.  J. King, Jonah (1864), xxxv. 275. Those that are affined unto him in the flesh.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. iii. 25. The Wise and Foole, the Artist and vn-read … seeme all affin’d, and kin.

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1866.  Huxley, Prehist. Rem. Caithn., 13. So far as cranial characters go … all the people whom I have enumerated are affined.

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1879.  McCarthy, Own Times, II. xxv. 224. They were thus affined by a double tie to the Russian people.

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  2.  Bound by any tie.

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1604.  Shaks., Oth., I. i. 39. Be judge yourself, Whether I in any iust terme am Affin’d To loue the Moore.

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