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co-opt, v.|kəʊˈɒpt|
[ad. L. cooptāre, f. co(m) together + optāre to choose. In L. strictly ‘to choose as a colleague, friend, or member of one's tribe or family’; sometimes also ‘to elect into a body’, otherwise than by its members. Cf. the earlier uses of co-optate, co-optation.]
trans. To elect into a body by the votes of its existing members.
1651Howell Venice 158 The favour they did him to co-opt him into the body of their Nobility. Ibid. 183 He sufferd himself to be coopted into the Colledg of Cardinalls. 1724Reg. Trin. Coll., Dublin in Fraser Life Berkeley iv. (1871) 101 Dr. Clayton was admitted and co-opted Senior Fellow. 1860W. G. Clark Vac. Tour 17 A body of bravoes..who co-opt into their body those who, by strength of arm and skill in the use of the stiletto, may have shown themselves worthy of the distinction. 1862Sat. Rev. XIV. 217/1 The claim of the existing Residentiaries to coopt to a vacancy. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 418 These eight co-opted two more, and these ten two more. 1881Nature XXIII. 292 He was co-opted a Senior Fellow..[and] made Vice-Provost.
Hence co-ˈopted, co-ˈopting ppl. adjs.
1875Symonds Renaiss. Italy I. iii. 149 The Grand Council..as a co-opting body, tended to become a close aristocracy. 1881Times 17 May 4/1 The Convocation of Canterbury..by means of members of their own body and co-opted scholars and divines..have completed one portion of the work. 1887Q. Rev. Jan. 176 Coopted trustees.
Add:2. To absorb into a larger (esp. political) group; to take over or adopt (an idea, etc.). U.S.
1969Atlantic Monthly Oct. 18/1 A Republican Party based in the ‘Heartland’ (Midwest), West, and South can and should co-opt the Wallace vote. 1970New Yorker 16 May 34/3 All too often, mere approval of their social and political concern has, in the jargon, co-opted their causes and deadened them. 1982N.Y. Times 22 Apr. a6/3 The argument has been, co-opt the left before it's too late. 1986B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking iv. xvii. 315 As English as apple pie, colonists must have said before America co-opted the dish for its own. |