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Webster 1913 Edition

Fellowship

Fel′low-ship

,
Noun.
[Fellow + -ship.]
1.
The state or relation of being or associate.
2.
Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that
fellowship
which is in less neighborhods.
Bacon.
Men are made for society and mutual
fellowship
.
Calamy.
3.
A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
The great contention of the sea and skies
Parted our
fellowship
.
Shakespeare
Fellowship
in pain divides not smart
Milton.
.
Fellowship
in woe doth woe assuage
Shakespeare
.
The goodliest
fellowship
of famous knights,
Whereof this world holds record.
Tennyson.
4.
Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
The sorrow of Noah with his
fellowship
.
Chaucer.
With that a joyous
fellowship
issued
Of minstrels.
Spenser.
5.
(Eng. & Amer. Universities)
A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
6.
(Arith.)
The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; – called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
Good fellowship
,
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades.

There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good
fellowship
in thee.
Shakespeare

Fel′low-ship

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fellowshiped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
.
Fellowshiping
.]
(Eccl.)
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fellowship

FEL'LOWSHIP

, n.
1.
Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Eph. 5.
Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
2.
Association; confederacy; combination.
Most of the other christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.]
3.
Partnership; joint interest; as fellowship in pain.
4.
Company; a state of being together.
The great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship.
5.
Frequency of intercourse.
In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods.
6.
Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed.
He had by his good fellowship - made himself popular, with all the officers of the army.
7.
Communion; intimate familiarity. 1John 1.
8.
In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.
9.
An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.

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