ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Joined in companionship; united in action or purpose, sharing in dignity or office, allied.
1611. Cotgr., Associé, Associated, accompanied, consorted.
1656. (title) Agreement of the Associated Ministers and Churches of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
1835. Sir J. Ross, N.-W. Pass., vi. 89. My associated though junior officer.
1881. Echo, 31 Jan., 3/6. The New York Associated Banks.
2. Connected in thought, mentally related.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iv. § 1 ¶ 94. The factitious, associated nature of these Pleasures.
1877. Lytteil, Landmarks, III. iv. 119. Nothing but the name and the associated monuments to help us.
3. Combined locally, circumstantially, or in classification (with); occurring in combination. Associated movements: those ‘having no connexion with the essential act calling them forth, but coincident or consensual with it’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1881).
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 250. With associated beds of finer ingredients.
1839. Murchison, Silur. Syst., I. xxii. 275. The combustion of lignite and coal producing a long continued heat, which has acted upon the associated shale.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xviii. (1852), 424. The almost entire absence of associated grasses [in New Zealand] may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest trees.
