Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To compel; force.
- To act together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To force; to compel; to drive.
- intransitive verb obsolete To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
compel ,constrain ,force . - adjective obsolete
Forced ,constrained , done under compulsion. - verb rare To work together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act together, as of organisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cousin german to idleness, and a concomitant cause, which goes hand in hand with it, is [1558] nimia solitudo, too much solitariness, by the testimony of all physicians, cause and symptom both; but as it is here put for a cause, it is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary.
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Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy
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Networking and Business Opps. You ability just accommodated a adolescent blogger, webmaster or business accomplice that wants to coact on a specific activity or venture.
Digital Point Forums superseo1 2010
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Networking and Business Opps. You ability just accommodated a adolescent blogger, webmaster or business accomplice that wants to coact on a specific activity or venture.
Digital Point Forums superseo1 2010
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A Charles Barkley show skit with Michael Phelps and Darrell Hammond as gymnastic coact Bela Karolyi:
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