Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Friendly or cooperative association, as between groups or organizations.
- n. Ecology A subdivision of an association having one dominant species of plant.
- n. A political arrangement in which various groups, such as ethnic or racial populations within a country or region, share power according to an agreed formula or mechanism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Intimate association of persons or things; fellowship; alliance; companionship; union.
- n. In the United States, an ecclesiastical body substituted by some Congregational churches for a council. It is usually composed of the pastors of the Congregational churches of the district represented and one lay delegate from each. It differs from a council in having a permanent organization, and it is also regarded by many as possessing a certain ecclesiastical authority. while the power of councils in the Congregational system is merely advisory.
Wiktionary
- n. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
- n. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
- n. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and coöperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
Etymologies
- From Latin consociatio. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Attempts, indeed, were made to bring him to trial, but they were unsuccessful, and in 1852 his church unanimously withdrew from the local "consociation," thus removing any possibility of further action against him.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
“Fifty years later, his _Vindication of the Government of the New England Churches_, too radical for his own day, was seen to be the very thing needed; in 1772, when "consociation" had broken down even in Connecticut, when”
“Not only did he serve vegan and vegetarian food, the trademark of Food Not Bombs, but he also brought them consociation.”
“But to the layman, the operating manual for such a complicated consociation or power-sharing form of government may appear so cumbersome that, out of pure desperation, he may prefer unitarianism, with the usual mechanisms to protect individual interests.”
“The Commission examined all the techniques and devices employed in group federation, consociation and power-sharing in various countries.”
“It is granted, that where there is no consociation, or neighborhood of single churches, whereby they may mutually aid one another, there a single congregation must not be denied entire jurisdiction; but this falls not within the compass of ordinary rules of church government left us by Christ.”
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
“His wisdom, order declares, which is the difference of virtues and vices, and the consociation of men by lawful governments and contracts ordained in wonderful wisdom.”
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
“A competent scholar, in recognising this consociation of Hebrew religion with the moon's phases, rightly ascribes to it an earlier origin.”
“During the course of the night the two souls are supposed to enter into mystic consociation with the babe, and thenceforth to be its companions.”
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
“Of the effect and purpose of this consociation no very definite explanation has so far been given to me.”
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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