consociate

plural consociates

1. obsoleteAn associate; an accomplice.

   [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.

   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

present singular third person consociates · participle present consociating · participle past consociated · past consociated

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo associate, partner, or join (with).

   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: […]

   1662, Henry More, "An Antidote Against Atheism", Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 129

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   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.

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

2. obsoletetransitiveTo form an alliance, confederacy, or relationship with; to bring together; to join; to unite, usually figuratively.

   Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.

   1747, David Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora

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   Under this last section, several persons consociated themselves

   c. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge

3. USTo unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.