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confederate

adj
/kənˈfɛdəɹət//kənˈfɛdəɹeɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1387, in Middle english; inherited from Middle English confederat(e) (“confederated, allied, associated in a plot; united or bound, as in friendship or troth”), borrowed from Late Latin cōnfoederātus perfect passive participle of cōnfoederō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, con- + federate.

  1. derived from cōnfoederātus
  2. inherited from confederat — “confederated, allied, associated in a plot; united or bound, as in friendship or troth”
  3. inherited from confederat

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

  2. Banded together

    Banded together; allied.

    • All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.
    • Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

  3. Confederated.

    • Remember as thou read'ſt, thy promiſe paſt : I do repent me, reade not my name there, My heart is not confederate with my hand.
    • And it was told the house of Dauid, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and his heart was moued, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are mooued with the wind.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A member of a confederacy.

    2. An accomplice in a plot.

      • By'th'vvay, vve met my vvife, her ſiſter, and a rabble more Of vilde confederates : […]
      • He found some of his confederates in gaol.

    3. To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy

      To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.

      • With them the gods were confederated to break barbarian arrogance.

    4. Of or relating to the Confederate States of America.

    5. Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland…

      Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.

    6. Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.

    7. A citizen of the Confederate States of America.

      • In fact, I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated.

    8. A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.

    9. A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA