Definition of Asociation
As*so`ci*a"tion (?; 277), 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.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with
God.
Boyle.
2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally
linked or associated with a thing.
Words . . . must owe their powers association.
Johnson.
Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable
associations, be profaned?
Coleridge.
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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated.
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- A connection to or an affiliation with something.
French
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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