Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To bring or come into friendly or cooperative association.
- adjective Associated; united.
- noun An associate or partner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An associate; a partner; a companion; a confederate.
- To unite; join; associate; connect.
- In New England, to bring together in an assembly or convention, as pastors and messengers or delegates of Congregational churches.
- To unite; come together; coalesce.
- In New England, to unite or meet in a body forming a consociation of churches. See
consociation , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite.
- transitive verb U.S. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.
- intransitive verb rare To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence.
- intransitive verb U.S. To form an ecclesiastical consociation.
- noun Archaic An associate; an accomplice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bring or come into association or action
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Authorities consociate by failing to fulfill their duties.
Every 15 days, another trans person is murdered in Turkey 2009
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That's Adoro and I on our way to a consociate retreat at St. Kate's.
OMIGOSH! Cathy is out of town for the weekend! Terry Nelson 2007
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[Sidenote: What is ver - tue.] can be consociate or vnited, for, vertue is a singuler meane, or Mediocrite in any good enterprise or facte, with order and reason finished.
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Moreouer who can saye the contrarie, but that such women as put their children from them, deliuering them to bee nourced of other, doe cut of, naye, rather doe wype awaye and extinguyshe, that bande and increase of mynde and affection, that doeth consociate and ioyne in nature, the parentes towarde their children.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Freedom, as the English now rule the Indies, and in time are destined, consociate with the French, to rule
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I niver could find in me heart to consociate wid them consaited commissioners -- though there was wan or two of 'em as was desarvin 'o' the three stripes.
Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land 1859
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One of his earliest observations was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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One of his earliest observations was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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One of his earliest observations was that white chlldren should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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I was quite successful with my rifle, and, by degrees, became much attached to the versatile life of lordly independence consociate with the loneliness of my situation.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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