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▪ I. associating, vbl. n.|əˈsəʊʃɪeɪtɪŋ|
[f. associate v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. associate; association, union for a common purpose. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1644[see associate v. 4 b.]. 1653Gauden Hierasp. Pref. 11 They deny any Nationall Church in any larger associatings of Christians. 1863Mill Utilit. 59 By associating the doing right with pleasure.
▪ II. aˈssociating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That associates; uniting; connecting in thought. associating fibres = association fibres (see next, sense 9).
1646Gaule Cases Consc. 27 It is the assembling or associating Witch. 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1859/5 The Plots and Machinations of..Associating Men. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 360 Or what associating league to the imagination can there be between the seers and the seers not, of a presential miracle? 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 640/1 One set serves to connect the cells of different areas of the cortex (the ‘associating fibres’). |