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coordinate, co-ordinate v. t. (past & past part. coordinated; pres. part. coordinating)

To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.

To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.

To be co-ordinated; as, These activities co-ordinate well.

Synonyms: coordinate.

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Etymology of 'Co-ordinate'

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... with intense stupefaction, trying, it seemed, to co-ordinate his faculties. Then, with a greater calmness than in his condition ...

— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre

... may be my privilege to deserve and secure, not only your cordial co-operation in great public measures, but also those relations of mutual confidence and regard which it is always so desirable to cultivate between members of co-ordinate branches of the government." [Footnote: From Mr. Franklin Pierce's first message to Congress as President of ...

— How To Do It • Edward Everett Hale

... would be right. But there is a second truth—very reverently and thoughtfully let me say—of equal importance with that; namely, this: the Holy Spirit empowereth against all sin, and for life and service. These two truths are co-ordinate. They run in parallel lines. They belong together. They are really two halves of the one great truth. But this second half needs emphasis, because it has not always been put into its ...

— Quiet Talks on Power • S.D. Gordon

... He would not accept the boisterous mode of cutting the Gordian-knot proposed by the noble British Philisterwe know were free and theres an end on it! He prefers Lamarcks, The will is, in truth, never free. He believes man to be a co-ordinate term of Natures great progression; a result of the interaction of organism and environment, working through cosmic sections of time. He views the human machine, the pipe of flesh, as depending upon the physical theory of life. Every ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... The "Instrument" was taken as the groundwork of the new Constitution, and carried clause by clause. That Cromwell should retain his rule as Protector was unanimously agreed; that he should possess the right of veto or a co-ordinate legislative power with the Parliament was hotly debated, though the violent language of Haselrig did little to disturb the general tone of moderation. Suddenly however Cromwell interposed. If he had undertaken the ...

— History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) - Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 • John Richard Green

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