consociate
An associate; an accomplice.
Adjective
Origin
From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
Noun
- 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...
Forms
Verb
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 themselves - c. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge:
- To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.