associate (ci as shi)

t. & i. [From the adj. In Fr. a ocier; Sp. asociar; Port. a ociar to a ociate.] A. Transitive: I. Of persons: 1. To join with one as a companion, a friend, a partner, or a confederate; to a ociate a person with one's self in some one of these relations; to unite together in friendship or confederacy, as twe persons or parties may do. "One of our order, to a ociate me, Here in this city visiting the sick." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, v. 2. "A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius, A ociated with Aufidius, rages Upon our territories." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iv. 6. "A ociate yourselves. O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces."- Isa . eces."- / sa. viii. 9. *2. To show sympathy with, by tears or otherwise, as a sincere a ociate or friend, even in one's woe. "Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring Because kind nature doth require it so; Friends should a ociate friends in grief and wo." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , v. 3. IL. Of things: To unite, blend, or join together, as feelings, mental conceptions, or material substances may do. "Members of the three great groups of feelings severally a ociate themselves primarily with members of their own group."- Herbert Spencer: Paychol. (2nd ed., 1870), vol. i., p. 253. "Native silver is always a ociated with gold."Graham: Chemistry (2nd ed.), vol. ii., p. 343. Formerly the verb to a ociate was at least occasionally followed by to ; now with is employed. (See the subjoined example and the examples above.) "Some oleaginous particles unperceivedly a ociated themselves to it."-Boyle. B. Intransitive: 1. Of persons: To keep company (with), to have intimate friendship with, to be in confederacy with. "They appear in a manner no way a orted to those with whom they must a ociate."-Burke. 2. Of things: To unite together in action, to act harmoniously. ( The elder Darwin .)