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 Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association,
   LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]
   1. The act of associating, or state of being associated;
      union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . .
      . bond of association." --Hooker.
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            Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
                                                  --Boyle.
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   2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or
      associated with a thing.
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            Words . . . must owe their powers association.
                                                  --Johnson.
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            Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their
            venerable associations, be profaned?  --Coleridge.
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   3. Union of persons in a company or society for some
      particular purpose; as, the American Association for the
      Advancement of Science; a benevolent association.
      Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society,
      consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors
      of neighboring churches, united for promoting the
      interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
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   {Association of ideas} (Physiol.), the combination or
      connection of states of mind or their objects with one
      another, as the result of which one is said to be revived
      or represented by means of the other. The relations
      according to which they are thus connected or revived are
      called the law of association. Prominent among them are
      reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and
      effect. --Porter.
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