
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 ]
n. [ Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare. ]
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. [ 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 ]
Association of ideas (Physiol.),
a.
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;