consociate

From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /kənˈsəʊsiət/, /kənˈsəʊʃiət/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /kənˈsəʊsieɪt/, /kənˈsəʊʃieɪt/

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consociate (plural consociates)

1. (obsolete) An associate; an accomplice.
   • 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLIX, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 145:

     [I]f his juſt hand ſhall ſvveep us avvay in the company of our vvicked conſociates, vve have reaſon to thank none but our ſelves for our ſufferings.

consociate

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   • 1846, Rufus Butler Sage, Rocky Mountain Life:

     I was quite successful with my rifle, and, by degrees, became much attached to the versatile life of lordly independence consociate with the loneliness of my situation.

consociate (third-person singular simple present consociates, present participle consociating, simple past and past participle consociated)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To associate, partner, or join (with).
   • 1662, Henry More, "An Antidote Against Atheism", Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 129:

     "In the first place therefore, it cannot but amuse a mans mind to think what these officious Spirits should be that so willingly sometimes offer themselves to consociate with a man: […] "

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

     One of his earliest observations was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To form an alliance, confederacy, or relationship with; to bring together; to join; to unite, usually figuratively.
   • 1747, David Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora:

     Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.

   • c. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge:

     Under this last section, several persons consociated themselves

3. (US) To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.

• cosonicate, ecoactions

consociate

1. feminine plural of consociato

consociate f pl

1. feminine plural of consociato

consociate f

1. plural of consociata

consociate

1. inflection of consociare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• acetiscono, conosciate

cōnsociāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnsociō