coalite
See also: Coalite
English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from coalition, from Latin coalitus, past participle of coalēscō (see coalesce).
Pronunciation
Verb
coalite (third-person singular simple present coalites, present participle coaliting, simple past and past participle coalited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to unite or coalesce.
- Template:RQ:Burke Hercules Langrishe
- Time has by degrees blended […] and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.
- Template:RQ:Burke Hercules Langrishe
- (obsolete, intransitive) To unite or coalesce.
- 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties
- Let them continue to coalite.
- 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties
- (politics, rare) To form a political coalition.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coalite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
coalite (plural coalites)
- Nonstandard form of Coalite.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) coalite
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