Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To compel; force.
- To act together.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To compel, constrain, force.
- adj. obsolete Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
- v. rare To work together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To force; to compel; to drive.
- v. obsolete To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
WordNet 3.0
- v. act together, as of organisms
Etymologies
- From co- + act. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cousin german to idleness, and a concomitant cause, which goes hand in hand with it, is [1558] nimia solitudo, too much solitariness, by the testimony of all physicians, cause and symptom both; but as it is here put for a cause, it is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary.”
“Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy”
“Networking and Business Opps. You ability just accommodated a adolescent blogger, webmaster or business accomplice that wants to coact on a specific activity or venture.”
“A Charles Barkley show skit with Michael Phelps and Darrell Hammond as gymnastic coact Bela Karolyi:”
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