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Society   /səsˈaɪəti/   Listen
noun
Society  n.  (pl. societies)  
1.
The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." "There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar."
2.
Connection; participation; partnership. (R.) "The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings."
3.
A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
4.
The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
5.
Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.
Society verses, the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.





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... Growth of Grilse and Salmon. By Mr Andrew Young, Invershin, Sutherlandshire. (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XV. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
... English at this period, against such representations, shows the extreme favour in which they stood with all classes of society.[780] The enthusiasm was so general and boundless that it seems to the author indispensable to take the field and retort (for the question was keenly disputed) the arguments put forward to justify the performance ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... have conspired against the life of his father, ascended the throne in 1461; notwithstanding his reign was disturbed by a series of wars, he found time to occupy himself with useful institutions, and founded that of the first society of printers in Paris; he also established the School of Medicine, and the Post Office. Superstitious and cruel, he first used iron cages as prisons, then instituted the prayer styled the Angelus. Although he increased ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve
... containing the tea; a vessel containing fresh water; a tea-bowl. It is not my purpose to describe the many interesting details of these "tea ceremonies." Suffice it to observe that they gave a great impetus to the manufacture of costly and elaborate china. The leaders of society, as we should term them, who took part in these ceremonies exercised a judicious and enlightened patronage of the ceramic art. They encouraged rising talent, and welcomed new developments. There can, ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery
... Oldfield, "The Aborigines of Victoria," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, N.S. ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer


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