KJV Dictionary Definition: associability

associability

ASSOCIABIL'ITY, n. The quality of being capable of association; the quality of suffering some change by sympathy, or of being affected by the affections of another part of the body.

associable

ASSO'CIABLE, a. assoshable. See Associate.

1. That may be joined to or associated.

2. In a medical sense, liable to be affected by sympathy, or to receive from other parts correspondent feelings and affections. "The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body."

associate

ASSO'CIATE, v.t. assoshate. L. associo, of ad and socio, to join.

1. To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

It conveys the idea of intimate union.

2. To unite in the same mass; as, particles of matte associated with other substances.

ASSO'CIATE, v.i.

1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

2. To unite in action, or be affected by the action of a different part of the body.

ASSO'CIATE, a.

1. Joined in interest or purpose; confederate.

2. Joined in employment or office; as an associate judge.

ASSO'CIATE, n.

1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

3. A companion in a criminal transaction; an accomplice.

associated

ASSO'CIATED, pp. United in company or in interest; joined.

associating

ASSO'CIATING, ppr. Uniting in company or in interest; joining.

association

ASSOCIA'TION, n.

1. The act of associating; union; connection of persons.

2. Union of persons in a company; a society formed for transacting or carrying on some business for mutual advantage; a partnership. It is often applied to a union of states or a confederacy.

3. Union of things; apposition, as of particles of matter.

4. Union or connection of ideas. An association of ideas is where two or more ideas constantly or naturally follow each other in the mind, so that one almost infallibly produces the other.

5. An exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensory residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of some antecedent or attendant fibrous contractions.

6. In ecclesiastical affairs, a society of the clergy, consisting of a number of pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

associational

ASSOCIA'TIONAL, a. Pertaining to an association of clergymen.

associative

ASSO'CIATIVE, a. Having the quality of associating, or of being affected by sympathy.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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