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Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton.

Of or pertaining to a consociation. [U.S.]

To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate. Florio.

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]

Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton.

Not They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. Spectator.

Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.

To render unsocial.

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

A kind of hoisting winch.

A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock. Forby.

The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. [R.] Bp. Warburton.