consociation

noun

1. Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.

- Friendly consociation with your kindred elements.

2. A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.

- In Connecticut some of the Congregational churches are associated in consociations and the others in associations.