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▪ I. conˈsociate, a. and n.
[ad. L. consociāt-us, pa. pple. of consociāre to associate together, join in fellowship (see next); cf. consocius fellow.]
A. adj. Associated together; united in fellowship or companionship. In early use as pa. pple. = consociated.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. x. in Ashm. (1652) 179 To Angells consociate. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1604) 98 Heart and outward profession must be consociate. 1661R. L'Estrange Relaps'd Apostate (ed. 3) 57 Their aiding and consociate Brethren. 1843New Age 1 Nov. 116 The consociate family life. 1844Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes 145 Consociate sovereigns thy preceptors are.
B. n. One associated with another; a partner, confederate, associate.
1579Fenton Guicciard. xi. (1599) 517 How he might make him his friend and consociate. a1627Hayward (J.), Partridge and Stanhope were..consociates in the conspiracy of Somerset. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 435 A constrayned consociat to their companeonry. 1855Bailey Mystic 39 Consociate of divinity. 1880Gordon Chron. Keith 172 There is naught to register about its consociates.
▪ II. consociate, v.|kənˈsəʊʃɪeɪt|
[f. L. consociāt- ppl. stem of consociāre to associate, conjoin in fellowship, f. con- together + sociāre to associate, f. socius sharing, partaking, in partnership, fellow.]
1. trans. To associate together, bring into association, companionship, partnership; to conjoin in action, etc.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 80 That bande..that doeth consociate and ioyne in nature, the parentes towarde their children. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §22 (1810) 30 Colly consociateth its waters with Axe. 1658Ussher Ann. vi. 210 Other Kings..had consociated their Fleets with Autophradates. 1715Bentley Serm. x. 346 They have consociated Jesus with Belial. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxx. 243 In Connecticut..the Puritan Clergy, who were then..consociated with the legislature. 1889H. F. Wood Englishm. Rue Caïn vi. 83 It was not anything consociated with either frost or snow.
b. spec. of Congregational churches in New England.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 270 There are few congregational churches that are consociated on the above principles.
2. intr. To associate together, enter into association, fellowship, partnership, union; spec. in New England, to join in a consociation of churches.
1638Jackson Creed ix. xvii. Wks. VIII. 287 Between the parties consociating. 1654Trapp Comm. Psalms ii. 2 They consociate..to fight against his annoynted. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 235 Without ever consociating into the huge condense Bodies of Planets. 1801Ann. Reg. 1800 Pref. 4 May all civilized nations consociate and co-operate for the general good. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 321 Lodgers..consociating together in pairs.
3. To associate or keep company with.
1656H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xiii. (1712) 126 The main reason why good spirits so seldom consociate with men. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. 388 Sweetly consociating with those men who have in them the spirit of Antichrist.
Hence conˈsociated ppl. a., conˈsociating ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1616T. Godwin Moses & Aaron (1655) 175 The Hebrew word signifieth conjoining or consociating. 1669Baxter Power Mag. & Ch. Past. ii. xxix. (1671) 32 The Concordant determination of Consociated Churches. 1828E. Irving Last Days 180 The covenant of wedlock, under whose united and consociated canopy all the health and prosperity of the rising generation doth grow. |