adunation

English

Etymology

From Latin adūnātiō, from ad + ūnus (“one”).

Noun

adunation (plural adunations)

1. The act of uniting; union.
   • 1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The Third Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, ad section XV (Considerations of Some Preparatory Accidents before the Entrance of Jesus into His Passion), discourse XX (Of Death, and the Due Manner of Preparation to It), page 397:

     [W]e are taught, that all the body of holy actions and miniſteries are to unite in production of the event, and that without that adunation one thing alone cannot operate: [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adunation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)