compane

English

Etymology

From Old French compaignier.

Verb

compane (third-person singular simple present companes, present participle companing, simple past and past participle companed)

(obsolete) To associate with.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants […]

Anagrams

Compean, Copeman, copeman

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