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consociate

American  
[kuhn-soh-shee-it, -eyt, -see-, kuhn-soh-shee-eyt, -see-] / kənˈsoʊ ʃi ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -si-, kənˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /

adjective

consociated, consociating
  1. associate.


consociate British  

verb

  1. to enter into or bring into friendly association

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. associated or united

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an associate or partner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of consociate

1425–75; late Middle English (adj.) < Latin consociātus (past participle of consociāre to bring into partnership), equivalent to con- con- + soci ( us ) fellow, partner + -ātus -ate 1

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In cases of matrimony, in which the internal affections do not conjoin, there are external affections, which assume a semblance of the internal and tend to consociate.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Let us then try what the consociate, or universal family will produce.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

I niver could find in me heart to consociate wid them consaited commissioners—though there was wan or two of ’em as was desarvin’ o’ the three stripes.

From Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

In cases of matrimony, in which the internal affections do not conjoin, there are external affections, which assume a semblance of the internal, and tend to consociate, n.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Individuals embarked in various enterprises; now no longer consociated with others in mutual coöperation, but for their individual benefit.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

But to no one is it given to speak as a spirit with angels and spirits, unless he be of such a character that he can be consociated with angels as to faith and love.

From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel

The reason is that they are consociated according to discrete, not according to continuous degrees.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

That the spirits of both parties may enter into marriage, and be more and more consociated.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

I perceived that a multitude of spirits who were consociated with them, was behind, a little to the left, in the plane of the occiput.

From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Swedenborg, Emanuel

I was joined in the course of a few weeks, in Peggy Russel's one-roomed cottage, by another lodger—lodgers of the humbler class usually consociating together in pairs.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

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