Definition of association

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Association (n.) 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..

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Converse :: Converse (n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
Witily :: Witily (adv.) In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas..
Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A literary or scientific association or club.
Translation :: Translation (n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
Habitude :: Habitude (n.) Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity..
Cooperation :: Cooperation (n.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.
Introspective :: Introspective (a.) Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.
Methodist :: Methodist (n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the Holy Club, formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties..
International :: International (a.) Of or concerning the association called the International.
Company :: Company (n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company..
Oblate :: Oblate (a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates..
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity..
Wit :: Wit (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner..
Partnership :: Partnership (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership..
Consortion :: Consortion (n.) Fellowship; association; companionship.
Secession :: Secession (n.) The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal..
Typothetae :: Typothetae (n. pl.) Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetae of America..
International :: International (n.) The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations..
Triumvirate :: Triumvirate (n.) A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire..
Conference :: Conference (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
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