Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SO'CIATION, n.

1. Intimate union of persons; fellowship; alliance; companionship; union of things. [This word is less used than Association.] – Wotton.
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. – Trumbull, Hist. of Conn.