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/kənfˈɛdərət/ /kənfˈɛdərˌeɪt/ Listen

noun

Confederate n.

One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense. "He found some of his confederates in gaol."

(Amer. Hist.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

verb

Confederate v. t. (past & past part. confederated; pres. part. confederating) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally. "With these the Piercies them confederate."

Confederate v. i. To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together. "By words men... covenant and confederate."

adjective

Confederate adj.

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied. "All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace."

(Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.

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"Confederate" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the horse's fittings in the first instance. This is a labour-saving practice and is almost universally followed. But I saw one of my enemies with a sidelong eye upon me, and tackled my horse at once. In two minutes his confederate ...

— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray

... that Phidon removed the Eleans; and both might be true: the Eleans might call in Phidon against the Pisaeans, and upon overcoming be refused presiding in the Olympic games by Phidon, and confederate with the Spartans, and by their assistance overthrow the Kingdom of Phidon, and recover their ancient right of presiding ...

— The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended • Isaac Newton

... absent lover, at great length and with all manner of revolting details, as the victim of the most loathsome of diseases! And why should such a crafty schemer risk his neck and put himself in the hands of a dangerous confederate for the purpose of hastening by a few hours the demise of a childish old man who is already in his power? And in his final agony of terror, when we should expect him to hide himself or try to escape, how absurd that he should summon Pastor Moser merely for the purpose ...

— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

... the people of the State, which needed no popular ratification. There was, therefore, no remedy when the State Conventions, after passing the ordinances of secession, went on to appoint delegates to a Confederate Congress, which met at Montgomery, Feb. 4, 1861, adopted a provisional constitution Feb. 8th, and elected a President and Vice-President Feb. 9th. The conventions ratified the provisional constitution and adjourned, their real object having been completely accomplished; and the people of the ...

— American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various

... less than a sort of a dissolution upon the world. Now, by these confessions, it is agreed, that the Devil has made a dreadful knot of witches in the country, and by the help of witches has dreadfully increased that knot; that these witches have driven a trade of commissioning their confederate spirits, to do all sorts of mischiefs to the neighbors, whereupon there have ensued such mischievous consequences upon the bodies and estates of the neighborhood, as could not otherwise be accounted for; yea, that at prodigious Witch-meetings the wretches have proceeded ...

— Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather - A Reply • Charles W. Upham

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