association (or ci as shi)

[In Ger. & Fr. a ociation; Sp. asociacion; Port. as so ciaçao.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of a ociating, uniting, or joining together. 1. Of persons, or other beings capable of action: "F. Cuvier has observed that all animals that readily enter into domestication consider man a member of their own society, and thus fulfil their instinct of a ociation."-Darwin: Voyage round the World , ch. viii., p. 150. in close a ociation ."-Darwin: Descent of Man , pt. i, ch. iii. 2. Of things. [B. 1.] "We may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, But we cannot Buy with gold the old a ociations." Long fellow: Birds of Pa age ( Golden Milestone ). "Here a name of noble intellectual a ociations..." -Tyndall : Frag. of Science (3rd ed.), xii. 559. IMG:content-0824.png:[blocks in formation] Philos. The doctrine of the a ociation of ideas. [A oCIATION, B. 1 (α).] as-so-çi-ā-tion-ist, s. [Eng. a ociation (ism); -ist.) (1) An adherent or supporter of a ociation isın (q.v.); (2) A member of an a ociation. as-so-çi-ā-tive (or çi as shí), a . [Eng. a ociat(e); -ive.] Po e ing the quality of a ociating. (Cole ridge.) ( Reid . ) as-so-çi-ā-tor (or çi as shì), s. [Eng. as so- ciate; -or.] One who a ociates with others for any purpose. "In Westminster there were thirty-seven you sand a ociators, in the Tower Hamlets eight you sand, in South wark eighteen you sand." - Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xxi. IMG:content-0825.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0826.png:[blocks in formation] * as-soil (2), * as-soil'e, * as-soyl', * as- soyl'e, * as-sole, * a-soile, * a-soyl'e (0. Eng .), as-soil-zie, * as-soil-yie (zi as yì) (0. Eng . & Mod. Scotch ), v.t. [O. Fr. a oiler, a aurre, a audre, a oldre , absoiler , absouldre; from Port. a olvar ; Ital. a olvere ; as-sört-ěd, pa . par . & a. [ASSORT, v .] Lat. absolvo (1) to loosen from, (2) to free from, (3) to acquit, (4) to pay off, (5) to finish: abfrom, and solvo = to loosen, to untie.] [ABSOLVE.] A. Of the Old English forms a oil, .: 1. To let loose, to set free; to deliver. "Till from her bonds the spright a oiled is." Spenser: F. Q., I. x. 52. 2. To absolve a sin, or fault, or error; or to absolve a person from a charge, to acquit him. "Well meeting how their errour to a oyle." Spenser: F. Q., IV. vi. 25. "The Pape them a oled." - Chron. of Rob. de Brunne, p. 205. (S. in Boucher .) IMG:content-0827.png:[blocks in formation] "When we speak by way of riddle, of which the sense can hardly be picked out but by the parties' own a oile."- Putten ham , iii. 157. ( Nares .) * as-soil-ing, * as-soil-lyng, * as-soyl- inge, *a-soyl-yn, pr . par . & s. [ASSOIL, ν.] As substantive : Absolution. "And to sywi this mansinge, and the a oylinge al so, we as sign eth the bi op of Winchestre to."-Robert of Gloucest.: Chron., p. 502. (S. in Boucher .) "Asoylyn of synnys."-Prompt. Parv. "For curs wol slee right as a oillyng saveth." Chaucer: The Prologue , 663. as-soil-ment, s. [O. Eng. a oil, and Eng. suff.-ment.] The act of a oiling; absolution. (More.) ( Speed .) as-soil-zie (z silent), * as-soil-yie, v.t. [ASSOIL (2), B.] IMG:content-0828.png:[blocks in formation] * as-soy'ne, * as-so in, * as-soy'gne (g silent), * a-soy'ne, s. [ESSOIN, S.] * as-soy'ne, v.t. [ESSOIN, s. & v.] * as-spy'e, v.t. [ESPY.) as-sua'de (suă as swa), v.t. (Pref. as- = adintens. and Lat. suadeo .] To urge persua. sively. "Unle he could a uage the woe Which he abhorr'd to view below." The Hind and Panther , fi. Note. "Art girt about by demons, who a ume The words of God, and tempt us with our own Di atisfied and curious thoughts.. Byron: Cain, 1. 1. +(3) To adopt or receive into a society. "The sixth was a young knight of le er renown and lower rank, a umed into that honourable company." -Scott . ( Good rich and Porter.) 2. To take upon one's self, to arrogate to one's self authority. IMG:content-0829.png:[blocks in formation] "In every hypothesis something is allowed to be a umed."-Boyle. we must not therefore a ume the liberty of setting aside well-ascertained rules of historical evi- dence."-Lewis: Early Rom , Hist ., ch. viii., § 1. B. Intransitive: 1. Ordinary Language: To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is one's due. The act of a uaging; the state of being as- suaged; mitigation, abatement. "Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end, Or, shall their ruthle torment never cease, But all my days in pining languor spend, Without hope of a uagement or release." Spenser: Sonnets. as-sua-ger (suā as swā), s. [Eng. a uage; -er.] One who or that which a uages. "If in the breast tumultuous joys arise, Musick her soft a uasive voice supplies." Pope : St. Cecilia . *as-sub-ju-gāte, v.t. [Lat. ad = to, and subjugate.] To subjugate to, to subject to. "This thrice worthy and right valiant lord Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquir'd: Nor, by my will, a ubjugate his merit." causes ch. iv. the a umed uniformity of the exciting "-Darwin: Descent of Man , vol. 1, pt. i., "'Disastrous news!' dark Wycliffe said; A umed despondence bent his head, While troubled joy was in his eye, The well-feigned sorrow to belie."" IMG:content-0830.png:[blocks in formation] * as-su-měnt, s. [Lat. a umentum, from a uo to sew on, to put a patch on ad = to , and suo to sew.] A patch. "This a ument or addition Dr. Marshal says he never could find anywhere but in this Anglo-Saxonick translation."-Lewis: Hist . Eng . Bibles , p. 9. as-su-měr, s. [Eng. a ume; -er.] One who takes to himself more than he is entitled to, or takes upon himself what he has no right or is unable to do; a pretender; also a woman who does so. "Can man be wise in any course in which he is not safe too? But can these high a umers , and pretenders to reason, prove themselves so?"- South . IMG:content-0831.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0832.png:[blocks in formation]