Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fellowship

Fellowship , 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.
(Arithmetic) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. — Shakespeare

Fellowship , transitive verb

(Ecclesiastical) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.