coalite

Back-formation from coalition, from Latin coalitus, past participle of coalēscō (see coalesce).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊ.əˈlaɪt/

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coalite (third-person singular simple present coalites, present participle coaliting, simple past and past participle coalited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to unite or coalesce.
   • 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland

     Time has by degrees blended and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To unite or coalesce.
   • 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties:

     Let them continue to coalite.

3. (politics, rare) To form a political coalition.

• “coalite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlaɪt/

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coalite (plural coalites)

1. Nonstandard form of Coalite.

• acolite, aloetic

coalite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coalō