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compane

compane verb: to associate with.

Verb

compane (third-person singular simple present companes, present participle companing, simple past and past participle companed)

  1. (obsolete) To associate with.
    • Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of compane

third-person singular presentcompanes
present participlecompaning
past participlecompaned
pastcompaned

Origin of compane

From Old French compaignier.

Questions about compane

What does compane mean?
Compane means to associate with.
What part of speech is compane?
Compane is a verb.
What is the past tense of compane?
The past tense of compane is companed.

Words near compane in the dictionary

  1. companding
  2. compandings
  3. compandor
  4. compandors
  5. compands
  6. compane
  7. companed
  8. companes
  9. companiable
  10. companie
  11. companied

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