confederate

adjective

1. 1

   Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

2. 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. 3

   archaicConfederated.

   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.

noun

1. 1

   A member of a confederacy.

2. 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. 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. 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.

Forms

plural

confederates

comparative

more confederate

superlative

most confederate

past tense

confederated

past participle

confederated

present participle

confederating

third person singular

confederates