a. [f. prec. + -AL 1.] Of or pertaining to (an) association. Associational School: those philosophers who hold the doctrine of associationism.
1815. Boston Q. Rev., 56, in Pickering, Dict. Amer. [Students in divinity] must … pass through the associational or presbyterial examination.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurture, vi. (1861), 148. A kind of associational instinct.
Associationalism = ASSOCIATIONISM; Associationalist = ASSOCIATIONIST.
