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adj. Linked by a close relationship.

adj. Beholden to another; bound.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of affine.

adj. Joined in affinity or by any tie.

Joined by affinity or any close tie; akin; allied; confederated.

Bound or obligated by affinity or some intimate relation.

In zoology, joined in natural affinity; having affinity; allied homologically and morphologically; related in structural character.

adj. closely related

"And, on the other hand, it is even more closely affined to the skulls of certain ancient people who inhabited Denmark during the ‘stone period,’ and were probably either contemporaneous with, or later than, the makers of the ‘refuse heaps,’ or"

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aligned    assigned    behind    bind    blind    combined    confined    consigned    declined    defined