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To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with .

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

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

To associate again; to bring again into close relatoins.

aration from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was a…

An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.

Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally. Buckle.

Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28.

The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused. Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature. Hare.

One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.

An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers, And Carolina's with associators. Dryden.

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.