confederate
AdjektivSubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- //kənˈfɛdəɹət//
- //kənˈfɛdəɹeɪt//
Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
Adjektiv
- 1
Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
- 2
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
altertümlichConfederated.
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.
Herkunft
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.
Substantiv
- 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.
These are replete with references to [...] slaves who typically absconded in well-organized groups, often with a light-skinned confederate who posed as their owner until they reached freedom.
- 3
An accomplice in a plot. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?
Verb
- 1
To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.
With them the gods were confederated to break barbarian arrogance.
All persons who conspire confederate and agree to murder any person whether a subject of Her Majesty or not and whether within the Queen's dominions or not, […] shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years.
Herkunft
First attested in 1531; borrowed from Late Latin cōnfoederātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of (obsolete) confeder.
Formen
- Plural
- confederates
- Komparativ
- more confederate
- Superlativ
- most confederate
- Präteritum
- confederated
- Partizip II
- confederated
- Partizip I
- confederating
- 3. Person Singular
- confederates
confederate · Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
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