AFFINITY Copy link • AFFINITYaffinitas. To make affinity with (Bible, Tr.), affinitatem cum aliquo conjungere; cum aliquo affinitate sese conjungere, sese devincire. Relations by affinity, affines: affinitate conjuncti. To be connected by affinity, affinitate inter se jungi, devinciri. Close connection, similarity, cognatio, conjunctio. To have an affinity with anything, cognationem habere cum aliqua re; propinquum, finitimum, propinquum et finitimum esse alicui rei: there is some affinity between our souls and the gods, animus tenetur quadam conjunctione deorum: not to bear the least affinity to anything, remotissimum esse a re. Power of attracting, *attrahendi, quae dicitur, vis (propr.): *vis ad se illiciendi or attrahendi (IMPROP.).