consociate

Noun

consociate (plural consociates)

1. (obsolete) An 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

Verb

IPA/kənˈsəʊsieɪt/

consociate (third-person singular simple present consociates, present participle consociating, simple past and past participle consociated)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To 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
   • 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...1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
2. (obsolete, transitive) To 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
   • Under this last section, several persons consociated themselvesc. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge
3. (US) To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.