Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To compel; force.
  • To act together.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To force; to compel; to drive.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To act together; to work in concert; to unite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To compel, constrain, force.
  • adjective obsolete Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
  • verb rare To work together.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb act together, as of organisms

Etymologies

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From the participle stem of Latin coagere.

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From co- +‎ act.

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Examples

  • Cousin german to idleness, and a concomitant cause, which goes hand in hand with it, is [1558] nimia solitudo, too much solitariness, by the testimony of all physicians, cause and symptom both; but as it is here put for a cause, it is either coact, enforced, or else voluntary.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Networking and Business Opps. You ability just accommodated a adolescent blogger, webmaster or business accomplice that wants to coact on a specific activity or venture.

    Digital Point Forums superseo1 2010

  • Networking and Business Opps. You ability just accommodated a adolescent blogger, webmaster or business accomplice that wants to coact on a specific activity or venture.

    Digital Point Forums superseo1 2010

  • A Charles Barkley show skit with Michael Phelps and Darrell Hammond as gymnastic coact Bela Karolyi:

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2008

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