consociate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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Noun

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.

Adjective

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.

Verb

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.

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 “consociate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. )

Anagrams

• cosonicate, ecoactions

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

consociate

1. feminine plural of consociato

Participle

consociate f pl

1. feminine plural of consociato

Etymology 2

Noun

consociate f

1. plural of consociata

Etymology 3

Verb

consociate

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

Anagrams

• acetiscono, conosciate

Latin

Verb

cōnsociāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnsociō