coalite

See also: Coalite

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from coalition, from Latin coalitus, past participle of coalēscō (see coalesce).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊ.əˈlaɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Verb

coalite (third-person singular simple present coalites, present participle coaliting, simple past and past participle coalited)

(obsolete, transitive) To cause to unite or coalesce.
- 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
  Time has by degrees blended […] and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.
(obsolete, intransitive) To unite or coalesce.
- 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties
  Let them continue to coalite.
(politics, rare) To form a political coalition.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for coalite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlaɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

coalite (plural coalites)

Nonstandard form of Coalite.

Anagrams

acolite, aloetic

Latin

Verb

coalite

second-person plural present active imperative of coalō

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