companioned

adj

1. In which one has one or more companions; not alone.

   “For contemporaries, perhaps the most shocking thing about the Black Death was that fear of contagion led people to abandon the sick, leaving them to die alone, like animals. The human condition demanded a companioned death.”

   “What now follows is a time when Jesus invites these people to touch him and feed him, and in that way they come to know that they are a companioned people.”

   “This week is given over to a conversation with Dante, the poet who so perfectly models our spiritual life as a companioned journey, in which we can be in present conversation with other writers and figures from the past.”

   “The Epilogue encodes this furtive hope of a companioned paradise in its counsel to Clarel to “keep thy heart” and its image of the “swimmer”—naked, one assumes—“rising from the deep,” who is equated with the “burning secret” and the hope in immortality (4.35.27, 30, 31).”

   “A man of his temperament does not lightly undertake even a companioned isolation in a winter land.”

2. Involving a deep connection or committed relationship.

   “Ideally, the two people involved in a companioned relationship will build deep levels of faith and trust in each other through the sharing of their faith stories, Scripture, and prayer.”

   “He took up a companioned life with Daisy Mason, a fellow Georgian, and had three children, one of whom was Ella, who came to play a major role in Malcolm's life.”

   “Usual ideas of family and kinship are questioned if for example two of a ciswoman's egg cells are fertilized with the semen of a companioned gay and the embryos are then inserted into the womb of her spouse and a further man who has a female-to-male history.”

   “We had lived through a companioned experience together.”

3. Meant or able to be used together with (something specified); matched; that acts as a companion.

   “That maiden I will leave yet a while at the caravanserai, and come hither with a companioned steed and bear this girl into the city, while you follow behind with your slaves.”

   “In addition to this dataset, we also used a companioned dataset from a previous ear-EEG sleep monitoring study (Mikkelsen et al., 2019, 2022) in which custom-made earpieces and a commercial amplifier were used.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of companion