companioned

English

Adjective

companioned

1. In which one has one or more companions; not alone.
   • 1999, Peter C. Jupp, ‎Clare Gittings, Death in England: An Illustrated History, page 98:

     For contemporaries, perhaps the most shocking thing about the Black Death was that fear of contagion led people to abandon the sick, leaving them to die alone, like animals. The human condition demanded a companioned death.

   • 2002, Paul E. Flesner, Robert A. Noblett, David G. Rogne, Stephen M. Crotts, William G. Carter, Sermons on the Gospel Readings, page 138:

     What now follows is a time when Jesus invites these people to touch him and feed him, and in that way they come to know that they are a companioned people.

   • 2014, Malcolm Guite, Word in the Wilderness, page xiv:

     This week is given over to a conversation with Dante, the poet who so perfectly models our spiritual life as a companioned journey, in which we can be in present conversation with other writers and figures from the past.

   • 2022, A New Companion to Herman Melville, Wyn Kelley, ‎Christopher Ohge, page 397:

     The Epilogue encodes this furtive hope of a companioned paradise in its counsel to Clarel to “keep thy heart” and its image of the “swimmer”—naked, one assumes—“rising from the deep,” who is equated with the “burning secret” and the hope in immortality (4.35.27, 30, 31).

   • 2022, Katharine Newlin Burt, The Branding Iron:

     A man of his temperament does not lightly undertake even a companioned isolation in a winter land.

2. Involving a deep connection or committed relationship.
   • 1991, Sarah Harmony, Re-Membering, page 17:

     Ideally, the two people involved in a companioned relationship will build deep levels of faith and trust in each other through the sharing of their faith stories, Scripture, and prayer.

   • 2012, African American Review - Volume 45, Issues 1-2, page 240:

     He took up a companioned life with Daisy Mason, a fellow Georgian, and had three children , one of whom was Ella, who came to play a major role in Malcolm's life.

   • 2015, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice:

     Usual ideas of family and kinship are questioned if for example two of a ciswoman's egg cells are fertilized with the semen of a companioned gay and the embryos are then inserted into the womb of her spouse and a further man who has a female-to-male history.

   • 2018, Robert Grossmark, The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst:

     We had lived through a companioned experience together.

3. Meant or able to be used together with (something specified); matched; that acts as a companion.
   • 1877, The Nickel Library, page 18:

     That maiden I will leave yet a while at the caravanserai, and come hither with a companioned steed and bear this girl into the city, while you follow behind with your slaves.

   • 1914, Arthur A. Girard, “No. 157,665 Curtain Holder”, in The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, page 2676:

     A shade fastener for shade rollers comprising a single length of springy wire bent in its main length to provide aligned embracing loops adapted to extend partly around the roller, connecting gripping portions connecting the loops wtih each toher, one terminal of each of the loops being offset toward the center of the loop and adapted to engage the roller, the said terminals being then extended toward each other at right angles to their respective loops parallel with the connecting gripping portion, the said extended terminals providing a companioned gripping portion and separated relatively thereby to render the loops yieldingly lateral.

   • 1954, Docket No. 11108, page 536:

     Affiant stated to the three Agents that this information was contrary to that which he had received the previous day from Assistant United States Attorney Joseph Martin, and the further information, which he had just received from Agent Doberman, who had stated to affiant that Mr. Martin, as head of the Criminal Division of the United States District Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, had exclusive jurisdiction of the subject matter, because of a "companioned case" entitled "United States vs. Giglio, et al." then pending in the Southern District of New York.

   • 2023, Martin Georg Bleichner, ‎Preben Kidmose, ‎Jérémie Voix, Ear-Centered Sensing, page 98:

     In addition to this dataset, we also used a companioned dataset from a previous ear-EEG sleep monitoring study (Mikkelsen et al., 2019, 2022) in which custom-made earpieces and a commercial amplifier were used.

Derived terms

• uncompanioned

 

Verb

companioned

1. simple past and past participle of companion