coactionn.
/kəʊˈakʃən/ I. Senses relating to control or restraint.† 2. Contraction, condensation. Obsolete. rare.† 3. [translating Latin coactio.] Some disease of animals.
1. † c. Application of physical force. Obsolete. rare.
a. Compulsion, constraint, coercion. (Very frequent in 16–17th centuries; now rare.)
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun]
needeOE
distressc1384
force1387
stressc1390
artingc1400
coactionc1400
constrainauncec1400
compulsion1462
enforcement1477
coercion1495
forcement1524
enforcing1531
strain1532
constraint1533
coercement1592
constrainment1593
duress1596
compulse1616
obligement1641
cogency1702
coercive control1827
steamrolling1879
compression1880
c1400 Test. Love (1560) iii. 295/1 Coaccion, that is to sayne, constrainyng.
1528 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. I. 55 Of his own nature, without coaction or compulsion of the law.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 367 The liberty of the Will, whereby it hath power to determin it self, and is free from all force and coaction.
a1711 T. Ken Sion ii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 360 To sin and err were I not free, All Duty would Co-action be.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will i. v. 28 Constraint..otherwise called Force, Compulsion, & Coaction; which is a Person's being necessitated to do a Thing contrary to his Will.
1852 A. P. Forbes Explan. Nicene Creed 51 The power of choice and..absence of any extrinsic or intrinsic necessity or coaction.
b. Control in the way of constraining.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > control in the way of
coaction1855
1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 95 The Strength of the true self is acquired solely by its resistance and co-action of the gravitation of the lower nature.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > physical effort or force
motion1568
coactiona1661
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 15 Gives motion unto this wheel without any great strain or coaction.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > concentration or condensation
compaction1398
compacting1561
condensation1603
coaction1625
concentration1865
pemmicanization1901
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. ii. 21 The thickning..of any body is made by addition and coaction of more parts into the same space.
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1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 69 Coaction (or Constraint) is the Name of a Passion in Animals from which divers kinds of Sicknesses arise.
II. Senses relating to concerted action. [ < co- prefix + action n.] (with hyphen).
4.
a. Action in concert, acting together.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [noun]
co-operation1495
concurrence1525
conspiring1561
concomitation1563
consort1590
concurring1594
concurrency1596
concurrent1605
communion1614
coadjutement1618
coaction1625
synergy1632
concourse1635
coadjuvancy1646
coactivity1659
co-operancya1670
synenergya1680
tandem1851
collaboration1860
coadjuvation1875
1625 J. Stradling Divine Poemes ii. 57 When Beares, and Woolues..Assault your fouldes: By their vniust coaction.
1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 111 The Co-action of Soul and Body.
1746 Fool (1748) I. 209 Which inflames his Spirits beyond a regular Coaction with his natural Understanding.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 33 The simultaneous co-action of different bodies of soldiery.
b. Ecology. The interaction of two or more individuals or species.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > relationships of organisms > [noun]
biocoenology1919
coaction1927
1927 F. E. Clements in Carnegie Inst. Washington Year Bk. XXVI. 323 Coaction [is] the effect manifested by plants or animals upon each other directly.
1949 W. C. Allee et al. Princ. Animal Ecol. xxii. 349/1 The coaction aspect of the population problem.
Derivatives
coacˈtee n.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [noun] > one or each of two
commensal1872
mutualist1874
symbiont1887
symbiote1897
parasymbiont1911
partner1924
parabiont1935
coactee1939
coactor1939
epibiont1949
1939 F. E. Clements & V. E. Shelford Bio-Ecol. iv. 104 The initiating or directing organism..the coactor and the receiving one..the coactee.
coˈactor n.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in interrelationship > [noun] > one or each of two
commensal1872
mutualist1874
symbiont1887
symbiote1897
parasymbiont1911
partner1924
parabiont1935
coactee1939
coactor1939
epibiont1949
1939 F. E. Clements & V. E. Shelford Bio-Ecol. iv. 104 The initiating or directing organism..the coactor and the receiving one..the coactee.
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