[I]f his juſt hand ſhall ſvveep us avvay in the company of our vvicked conſociates, vve have reaſon to thank none but our ſelves for our ſufferings.1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLIX, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 145:
consociate
adj
Etymology From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
consociate
verb
/kənˈsəʊsieɪt/ · /kənˈsəʊʃieɪt/
Etymology From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
In the first place therefore, it cannot but amuse a mans mind to think what these officious Spirits should be that so willingly sometimes offer themselves to consociate with a man: […]1662, Henry More, "An Antidote Against Atheism", Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 129
One of his earliest observations was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete To form an alliance, confederacy, or relationship with; to bring together; to join; to unite, usually figuratively.
Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.1747, David Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora:
Under this last section, several persons consociated themselvesc. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge: