fellowing

Verb

fellow (third-person singular simple present fellows, present participle fellowing, simple past and past participle fellowed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To address (someone) as "fellow", especially in an insulting manner (see noun sense 10.6).
   • 'Don't Fellovv me,' ſaid the Bailiff, 'I am as good a Fellovv as yourſelf, I believe, tho' you have that Ribbond in your Hat there.'1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, “Which Inclines Rather to Satir than Panegyric”, in Amelia, volume III, London: […] [William Strahan] for A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book VIII...
2. (archaic, poetic, transitive, chiefly passive voice) To equal (someone or something); also, to cause or find someone or something to be equal to (another).
   • For my part, let me rather affect and applaud the harmleſs humor of that miſ-called Saint, vvho in an indiſcreet humility called every VVoolf his brother, and every Sheep, yea, every Ant his ſiſter, fellovving himſelf vvith every thing that had life in it, as vvell as himſelf; […]1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter C, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, pages 294–295
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pair or suit (someone or something) with another; also, to pair or suit someone or something with (another); to arrange (things) in pairs.
4. (also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To associate or join (oneself, someone, or something) with another in companionship or a partnership.
   • [A] man by nature is rather deſirous to fellow him ſelfe to another and ſo to liue in couple, than to adherd^([sic – meaning adhere?]) himſelfe with many.1562–1565 (date written), Thomas Smyth [i.e., Thomas Smith], “The First Sort or Beginning of an House or Familie Called οἰκονομία”, in De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Gouernement or Policie of...
5. (obsolete, reflexive, sometimes, transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause or portray (someone or something) to be equal to (another).
6. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To associate or go together with (someone or something); to become a partner of (someone or something).
   • Affection? thy Intention ſtabs the Center. / Thou do'ſt make poſſible things not ſo held, / Communicat'ſt vvith Dreames (hovv can this be?) / VVith vvhat's vnreall: thou coactiue art, / And fellow'ſt nothing.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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