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/junˈaɪtəd/ /junˈaɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

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

1.

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.

2.

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.

1.

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

2.

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

adjective

United adj. Combined; joined; made one.

United Brethren. (Eccl.) See Moravian, n.

United flowers (Bot.), flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower.

The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation.

United Greeks (Eccl.), those members of the Greek Church who acknowledge the supremacy of the pope; called also uniats.

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... animated all men. The tyranny and the anarchy which now equally oppressed the kingdom; the experience of past distractions, the dread of future convulsions, the indignation against military usurpation, against sanctified hypocrisy; all these motives had united every party, except the most desperate, into ardent wishes for the king's restoration, the only remedy for ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume

... here. Which hath the right To give the head to the united Council? Schwytz may contest that dignity with Uri, We Unterwald'ners enter not ...

— Wilhelm Tell - Title: William Tell • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

... Lord Shaftesbury says, "The best proof that the people are cared for, and that they know it, appeared in the year 1848. All Europe was convulsed. Kings were falling like rotten pears. We were as quiet and happy in England as the President of the United ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... trip, and four of the company, including two elders and one woman, had to be excommunicated "for their wicked and licentious conduct." Three others were dealt with in the same way as soon as the company landed.* On landing they found the United States in possession of the country, which led to Brannan's reported remark, "There is that d—d flag again." The men of the party, some of whom had not paid all their passage money, at once sought work, but the company did not hold together. Before the end of the year some 20 more "went astray," ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... of a manuscript translation of the principal part of the Old Testament into Mandchou executed by Puerot, who, originally a Jesuit emissary at Pekin, passed the latter years of his life in the service of the Russian mission in the capacity of physician. The united labours of Mr. Swan and myself speedily brought the task in question to a conclusion, so that the transcript has for a considerable time been in the possession of the Bible Society. I will here take the liberty of offering a few remarks upon ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

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