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verb

Unite v. t. (past & past part. united; pres. part. uniting)

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. "Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul." "The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship."

Synonyms: To add; join; annex; attach. See Add.

Unite v. i.

To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.

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— Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick • Mrs. F. Beavan

... though he places him in the reign of Philip the Second of Spain. He went far out of his way to make Fontanares the first inventor of the steamboat; the improbability of such a supposition quite forfeits the interest of the spectators and, in attempting to effect a love denouement, he disgusts us by uniting the noble discoverer with the vile Faustine. Even the element of humor is wanting in his portrayal of Quinola—who is a combination of the slave in a Latin comedy and the fool, or Touchstone of Shakespeare. This ...

— Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac • Epiphanius Wilson and J. Walker McSpadden

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— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey

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— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton

... level ground. But we ultimately descended into a valley in which we halted for the night. On a closer examination of the neighbourhood, it appeared that our position was at the immediate junction of two valleys, where, uniting the waters of their respective creeks, the main branch declines rapidly towards the river. One of these valleys extended to to the S.W., the other to the W.N.W. It was evident to us that our route lay up the former; and I made no doubt we should ...

— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt

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