verb. (euphemistic).—To cohabit: see GREENS and RIDE.

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  c. 1500.  Remedie of Loue [CHALMERS, i. 542].

            If she be not ACCOMPANIDE,
How ACCOMPANIED, not with yong men,
But with maidens I meane or women.

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  1660.  R. COKE, Elements of Power and Subjection, 161. We teach, that upon Festival and Fasting times every man forbear to ACCOMPANY his wife.

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  1670.  MILTON, The History of England, v. [He] loved her and ACCOMPANIED with her only, till he married Elfrida.

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  1682.  GLANIUS, A New Voyage to the East-Indies, 177. The Phasma … ACCOMPANIES her, at least, as she imagines.

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