fraternizev.
/ˈfratənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfrædərˌnaɪz/ 1.
a. intransitive. To associate or sympathize with as a brother or as brothers; to form a fraternal friendship.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > fraternize [verb (intransitive)]
fraternize1611
cordialize1813
frat1957
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fraterniser, to fraternize, concurre with, be neere vnto, agree as brothers.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 1 July in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii 290 Had Alexander not fraternized with Buonaparte.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. v. 92 Too little of a democrat to fraternize with an affiliated society of the soi disant Friends of the People.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii We fraternised upon the spot.
b. spec. To cultivate friendly relations with (troops of an opposing army); to practise fraternization n.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > practice fraternization [verb]
fraternize1897
1897 G. B. Shaw Crude Criminol. in Doctors' Delusions (1932) 272 The whole army might..realize that they had no quarrel with the enemy and fraternize with them.
1915 Sphere 9 Jan. 31 It has puzzled our French allies..that while we are in a war to the death with the German Empire our soldiers and theirs should have been able to fraternise on Christmas Day... Soldiers of the rival armies exchanged sweets, cigars, and cigarettes, and sang carols and songs in unison.
1928 H. Williamson Pathway x. 228 The German and British staffs both issued orders, about the same time, that any man found fraternizing with the enemy, would be court-martialled.
1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. iii. 72 Soldiers from the rebel ranks fraternising with and discussing the situation with the Government troops.
1944 New Statesman 17 June 400/1 The War Office regulation..has laid down that British soldiers must be polite to coloured [U.S.] troops, but not fraternise with them, or offer them drinks.
1946 Britannica Bk. of Year 832/2 Fraternize, to deal socially with members of an enemy nation, especially with women; and, specifically, sexually.
2. transitive. To bring into fraternal association or sympathy; to unite as brothers. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)] > bring into association
allyc1325
confeder1380
sociea1387
associate1398
sociate1485
companya1500
band1530
confederate1532
aggregate1534
colleague1535
join1560
enter1563
bandy1597
league1611
colligate1613
club1656
fraternize1656
federalize1787
brigade1831
1656 T. Blount Glossographia To Fraternize, to agree as brothers; to concur with, or be neer unto; also to admit into a Fraternity, brotherhood or society.
1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) §7 A regular correspondence for fraternizing the two nations had also been carried on.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 149 To know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wond'rous whole: This fraternizes man.
1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 326 Emissaries were soon sent to the West Indies to fraternize the sable citizens of all the French islands.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 2 It might have..reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order.
Derivatives
ˈfraternized adj.
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1817 Ann. Reg. 27 All societies..which extended themselves by fraternized branches.
ˈfraternizing n. and adj.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun]
fraternization1792
fraternizing1793
confraternization1840
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > action of
fasteningOE
confederationc1425
confedering1530
banding1593
bandying1599
coalescence1609
associating1644
concorporating1648
federation1652
confederating1687
fraternizing1793
colleaguing1817
leaguing1841
ganging1891
gang-up1936
gang-banging1966
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] > with opposing troops
fraternizing1937
1793 Trial of Fyshe Palmer 46 Had these fraternizing principles been only heard in France, we might have cared the less.
1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 463 The love of equality, of levelling, and fraternising.
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. v. 45 A gentle..old man, who combined consummate shrewdness with a sort of fraternising good-humour.
1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ix. 179 And then ensued a perfect orgy of fraternising and eating.
1945 in Amer. Speech (1947) 22 147/2 (heading) Fraternizing in Germany.
1957 New Yorker 26 Oct. 144/2 The fantastic amount of fraternizing with the enemy in the Korean prison camps.
ˈfraternizer n. one who or that which fraternizes.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] > one who fraternizes
fraternizer1795
fratter1949
1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1818) IX. 74 I join issue with the Fraternizers, and positively deny the fact.
1837 T. De Quincey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 72 All Whigs..all, indeed, fraternisers with French republicanism.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table ii. 40 The grand equalizer and fraternizer..is..wine.
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