associateship (or ci as shi)

[Eng. a ociate, and suff. -ship.] 1. The state of one a ociated with another person, or with a party, or sharing with some one else a common office. "And that, under the present system, rising men were hardly ever admitted to a ociateship teship until unti they were past the age at which the recognition of the Academy could be of service to them. -Sir Charles Dilke : Speech in Parliament ; Times , April 10, 1877. 2. The position or dignity of being an a ociate. [ASSOCIATE, S., II.] as-so-çi-ā-ting (or ci as shi), pr. par. [ASSOCIATE, v.]