Chiefly Sc. ? Obs. [f. COMPANION sb.1 + -RY.] = COMPANIONSHIP.
1606. trans. Rollock’s 1 Thess., 252 (Jam.). Companionry is wondrous good, I should do as others do.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., No. 147 (1862), I. 345. I beseech and obtest you … to make conscience of … needless companionry.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 239. Good fellowship and Bacchanalian compagnionry.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, 16. The love of wine, which has the pretence of good companionry.
