combination (kombinashon)

[F. com bin a is on = Sp. comb in a cion = Pg. combinação = It. comb in azione, Macaulay , Gladstone in Church and State. We cannot reduce the world of experience to a web of relations in which nothing is related, as it would be if everything were erased from it which we cannot refer to the action of a combining intelligence. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 42. =Syn. To mix, compound, blend. II. in trans. 1. To unite; coalesce: as, honor and policy combine to justify the measure. All experience combines to testify against the stability and working power of "hazy" and amorphous creeds. H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 322. Specifically-2. To unite in friendship or alliance for the attainment of some common end; league together; join forces; a ociate; coöperate: followed by with. A stove used to warm