Definitions For Consociation

Noun

CONSOCIATION. (countable and uncountable, plural CONSOCIATIONs) (uncountable) associate#verb, associating, or come together, coming together in a union#noun, union; (countable) an instance#noun, instance of this. (uncountable) intimate#adjective, intimate companionship or fellowship; (countable) an instance of this. (countable, Christianity) A confederation of christian#adjective, christian church#noun, churches or organizations. (US, congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary#adjective, voluntary, permanent#adjective, permanent council make up, made up of representative#noun, representatives of neighbouring#adjective, neighbouring congregational churches for mutual#adjective, mutual advice#noun, advice and cooperation, co-operation in ecclesiastical#adjective, ecclesiastical matter#noun, matters; also, a meeting#noun, meeting of pastor#noun, pastors and delegate#noun, delegates from church#noun, churches thus unite#verb, united. : {{ux, en, In Connecticut some of the Congregational churches are associated in consociations and the others in associations.}} {{RQ:Stowe Oldtown Folks, chapter=One Minister in Cloudland, page=451, passage=The Consociation was another meeting of the clergy, but embracing also with each minister a lay delegate, and thus uniting, not only the ministry, but the laymen of the county, in a general fraternal religious conference.}} (countable, ecology) A subdivision of an association, made up chiefly of organisms of a single#adjective, single species. (countable, politics) A power sharing, power-sharing arrangement over territory enter into, entered into by competing#adjective, competing group#noun, groups. (countable, obsolete) An alliance; a confederation.

Derived terms

consociational consociationally consociationalism consociationism

Related terms

consociate consociated

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 聯盟, tr=liánméng Italian: consociazione, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 聯合, tr=liánhé

Etymology

{{PIE word, en, ḱóm}}{{root, en, ine-pro, *sekʷ-, id=follow}} Borrowed from {{bor, en, la, cōnsociātiōnem}}, the {{glossary, accusative}} {{glossary, singular}} of cōnsociātiō, t=alliance; association, union,Compare {{R:OED Online, pos=n, id=39662, date=December 2020, nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico, pos=n}} from cōnsociō, t=to make common; to associate; to connect, join (in), unite; to agree with; to share + -tiō, pos={{glossary, suffix forming {{glossary, noun}}s relating to actions or the results of actions}}. , Cōnsociō is derived from con-, pos={{glossary, prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several things}} + sociō, t=to ally, associate; to join, unite; to share in (from socius, t=associated; joining in, sharing, partaking; akin, kindred, related; allied, confederate, leagued, united, pos=adjective, ultimately from {{der, en, ine-pro, *sekʷ-, t=to follow}}).