. A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. “The associability of feelings.” H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Associate. ] 1. Capable of being associated or joined. [ 1913 Webster ]

We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sociable; companionable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Associability. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Associated p. pr. & vb. n. Associating ] [ L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See Social. ] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To connect or place together in thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To accompany; to keep company with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. associatus, p. p. ] 1. Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one [ idea ] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Companion; mate; fellow; friend; ally; partner; coadjutor; comrade; accomplice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an associate degree conferred for successful studies in applied science.
Syn. -- AAS [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a college degree granted for successful completion of a two-year course of study in arts or general topics.
Syn. -- AA [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare. ] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. “Some . . . bond of association.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) The doctrine or theory held by associationists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers,
And Carolina's with associators. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. consociatus, p. p. of consociare to associate, unite; con- + sociare to join, unite. See Social. ] An associate; an accomplice. [ Archaic ] “Wicked consociates.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consociated p. pr. & vb. n. Consociating. ] 1. To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. Mallet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence. [ R. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form an ecclesiastical consociation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consociatio. ] 1. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Connecticut some of the Congregational churhes are associated in consociations and the others in conferences. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a consociation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disassociated p. pr. & vb. n. Disassociating ] To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate. Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of sociability; unsociableness. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissociabilis, fr. dissociare: cf. F. dissociable. See Dissociate. ] 1. Not well associated or assorted; incongruous. [ 1913 Webster ]

They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + social: cf. L. dissocialis. See Dissociate, v. t. ] Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render unsocial. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissociated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissociating. ] [ L. dissociatus, p. p. of dissociare to dissociate; dis- + sociare to unite, associate, socius companion. See Social. ] To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not connected or associated.
Syn. -- unconnected. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. (Chem.) diffusing independently in a fluid; -- said of ions or molecules which may form relatively stable associated structures; as, the products become rapidly dissociated from the active site of the enzyme. Opposite of associated. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. dissociatio: cf. F. dissociation. ] 1. The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or leading to dissociation. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages. [ acron. ]
Syn. -- FNMA, Fannie Mae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. (psychoanalysis) to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used in psychotherapy.
Syn. -- associate freely. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (psychoanalysis) The act or process of free-associating. It is a technique used in psychoanalysis and is supposed to allow the analyst access to the unconscious thoughts of the analysand. See free-associate. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. insociabilité. ] The quality of being insociable; lack of sociability; unsociability. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. insociabilis: cf. F. insociable. See In- not, and Sociable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lime and wood are insociable. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

This austere insociable life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unsociably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not associate; without a companion; single; solitary; recluse. [ Obs. ] “The insociate virgin life.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not associative. Opposite of associative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. To associate again; to bring again into close relations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ Cf. F. sociabilité. ] The quality of being sociable; sociableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ F., fr. L. sociabilis, fr. sociare to associate, fr. socius a companion. See Social. ] 1. Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They are sociable parts united into one body. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social. [ 1913 Webster ]

Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can be more uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. No longer hostile; friendly. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sociable bird, or
Sociable weaver (Zool.), a weaver bird which builds composite nests. See Republican, n., 3. (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Social; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar; communicative; accessible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver. Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being sociable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sociable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]