[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That associates; uniting; connecting in thought.
1646. Gaule, Cases Consc., 27. It is the assembling or associating Witch.
1683. Lond. Gaz., No. 1859/5. The Plots and Machinations of … Associating Men.
1823. Lamb, Elia (1860), 360. Or what associating league to the imagination can there be between the seers and the seers not, of a presential miracle?
