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Webster 1913 Edition
Consociation
Con-soˊci-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
consociatio
.] 1.
Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
A friendly
consociation
with your kindred elements. Warburton.
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.
☞ In Connecticut some of the Congregational churhes are associated in consociations and the others in conferences.
Webster 1828 Edition
Consociation
CONSOCIATION
, n.1.
Intimate union of persons; fellowship; alliance; companionship; union of things. [This word is less used than association.]2.
Fellowship or union of churches by their pastors and delegates; a meeting of the pastors and delegates of a number of congregational churches, for aiding and supporting each other, and forming an advisory council in ecclesiastical affairs.Definition 2024
consociation
consociation
English
Noun
consociation (plural consociations)
- Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.
- Friendly consociation with your kindred elements.
- 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.
- In Connecticut some of the Congregational churches are associated in consociations and the others in associations.
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- consociation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913