associable (or ci as shi)

[Formed as if from a Lat. a ociabilis, on the analogy of sociable.] A. Ordinary Language: *1. Of persons: Sociable in disposition, companionable. ( Cotgrave , Todd, .) 2. Of persons and things: Capable of being united; joined or a ociated together. (Johnson, .) B. Technically: Capable of being a ociated together. Used 1. ( Psychol .) Of the feelings. we know feelings to be a ociable only by the proved ability of one to revive another."-Herbert Spencer: Psychol . (2nd ed., 1870), vol. i., p. 251. 2. ( Med .) Of organs of the body in sympathy with other organs.