Hypertext Webster Gateway: "consociate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, n. [L. consociatus, p. p. of
consociare to associate, unite; con- + sociare to join,
unite. See {Social}.]
An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] ``Wicked
consociates.'' --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consociated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Consociating}.]
1. To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to
bring together; to join; to unite. [R.]
Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.
--Mallet.
2. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Consociate \Con*so"ci*ate\, v. i.
1. To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence.
[R.] --Bentley.
2. To form an ecclesiastical consociation. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
consociate
v : bring or come into friendly association; "The churches
consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: {associate}]
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