[med.L. has coordināre to ordain together; mod.F. has coordonner; but the Eng. word was prob. formed independently, from CO- and L. ordināre, as a parallel form to subordinate.]
1. trans. To make coordinate; to place or class in the same order, rank, or division.
1665. T. Mall, Offer F. Help, 26. These two … are not opposed, but co-ordinated.
1875. Poste, Gaius, IV. § 1. Those who count four classes … commit the error of co-ordinating subclasses and classes.
1884. trans. Lotze’s Logic, 36. The marks of a concept are not coordinated as all of equal value.
2. To place or arrange (things) in proper position relatively to each other and to the system of which they form parts; to bring into proper combined order as parts of a whole.
1847. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., III. XVII. viii. 516. The different parts of each being must be co-ordinated in such a manner as to render the total being possible.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Shaks., Wks. (Bohn), I. 362. An omnipresent humanity co-ordinates all his faculties.
1867. Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. p. xviii. It systematises their results, co-ordinating their truths into a body of Doctrine.
1881. B. Sanderson, in Nature, No. 619. 439. How are the motions of our bodies co-ordinated or regulated?
3. intr. (for refl.) To act in combined order for the production of a particular result.
1863. Wynter, Subtle Brains, 413. When we remember the number of muscles which must co-ordinate to enable a man to articulate.
Hence Co[-]ordinated, Co[-]ordinating ppl. a.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat., V. 674/1. To bring such an organ into co-ordinated action.
1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 486. Let us grant that there is some co-ordinating power—some executive presiding over the just association of our ideas.
1880. C. & F. Darwin, Movem. Pl., 196. The several coordinated movements by which radicles are enabled to perform their proper functions.
1887. Athenæum, 26 March, 414/2. The co-ordinating intelligence.
