companionizev.
/kəmˈpanjənʌɪz/, U.S. /kəmˈpænjəˌnaɪz/ Now rare.
1. transitive. To put (a number of things) together; to regard as or make into companions.
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?1787 Artist's Repository & Drawing Mag. 3 61 In landscape..it seems to be a kind of custom to companionize subjects diametrically opposite.
1828 W. Carpenter Script. Nat. Hist. i. ii. 188 Mr. Taylor then proceeds to enquire what were the creatures most likely to be companionized and associated, in early ages, and in countries bordering on Egypt.
1926 Musical Times 67 118/1 The mind..may rejoicingly companionize and contain the composite concord [of notes].
2. transitive. To be a companion to; to keep company.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225
mella1300
fellowshipa1382
companya1400
accompany1461
to keep company (with)1502
encompanya1513
to keep (a person) company1517
to take repast1517
assist1553
to take up with1570
rempare1581
to go along with1588
amate1590
bear1590
to fall in1593
consort1598
second1600
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
comitate1632
associate1644
enhaunt1658
join1713
assort1823
sit1828
companionize1870
to take tea with1888
to knock about with1915
tote1977
fere-
1870 Good Words Sept. 590/1 Tom..was constantly in and out of Fernyhurst, companionizing his father.
1883 Jrnl. Educ. Dec. 402 (advt.) She would be willing..to converse with and companionise young people.
1888 W. Besant Herr Paulus III. xii. 223 To travel around with a show..to companionise a two-headed nightingale.
1994 E. K. Sedgwick Fat Art Thin Art 121 There's Toby's Page to companionize the poor mad dog.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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