[ad. L. consociāt-us, pa. pple. of consociāre to associate together, join in fellowship (see next); cf. consocius fellow.]
A. adj. Associated together; united in fellowship or companionship. In early use as pa. pple. = CONSOCIATED.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., X., in Ashm. (1652), 179. To Angells consociate.
1577. Test. 12 Patriarchs (1604), 98. Heart and outward profession must be consociate.
1661. R. L’Estrange, Relaps’d Apostate (ed. 3), 57. Their aiding and consociate Brethren.
1843. New Age, 1 Nov., 116. The consociate family life.
1844. Ld. Houghton, Mem. Many Scenes, 145. Consociate sovereigns thy preceptors are.
B. sb. One associated with another; a partner, confederate, associate.
1579. Fenton, Guicciard., XI. (1599), 517. How he might make him his friend and consociate.
a. 1627. Hayward, Edward VI. (1630), 143. Sr Miles Partridge, and Sr Michaell Stanhope were condemned as consociates in the conspiracy of Somerset.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 435. A constrayned consociat to their companeonry.
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 39. Consociate of divinity.
1880. Gordon, Chron. Keith, 172. There is naught to register about its consociates.
