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An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] Shak.

An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.

ed in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.

Method of expression; association of words.

The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies. Emerson.

l or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.

To cause to revive. Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.

An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

ensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual. That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors. Bacon.

A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.

A woman's club; an association of women. [U. S.]

ied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]

An association or body of stockbrokers who meet and transact business by certain recognized forms, regulations, and usages. Wharton. Brande & C. -- Stock farmer, a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock. -- Stock gillyflower (Bot.), the common stock. See Stock, n., 18. -- Stock gold, gold laid up so as…