compane

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Etymology

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From Old French compaignier.

Verb

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compane (third-person singular simple present companes, present participle companing, simple past and past participle companed)

  1. (obsolete) To associate with.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants []

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