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Confederate   /kənfˈɛdərət/  /kənfˈɛdərˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
Confederate  n.  
1.
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."
2.
(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.  
1.
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."
2.
(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



... seven years, Russia had lost one hundred and eighty thousand men, the French two hundred thousand, the Prussians a hundred and twenty thousand, the English and confederate Germans a hundred and sixty thousand, and the Saxons ninety thousand—lastly, the Swedes and the States sixty thousand. This seven years' war cost Europe nearly a million of men. Their blood fertilized the German soil, and their ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... any sort of dealings, been a friend or a confederate of either of those fellows, is in a ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... Mississippi expedition was abandoned, and the Tennessee made the point of attack. Both land and naval forces were ordered to mass themselves at this point, and the country soon began to feel the wisdom of this movement. The capture of Fort Henry, an important Confederate post on the Tennessee River serving to defend the railroad communication between Memphis and Bowling Green, was the first result of Miss Carroll's plan. It fell Feb. 6, 1862, and was rapidly followed by the capture of Fort Donelson, which, after a gallant defense, ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... article of agreement and convention made and concluded on the 9th day of December, 1854, between the United States, by George Hepner, United States Indian agent, and the chiefs and headmen of the confederate tribes of Otoe and Missouria Indians, being a supplement to the treaty made between the United States and said confederate tribes on the 15th day of ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 4) of Volume 5: Franklin Pierce • James D. Richardson

... the wily injunctions of her confederate, took the field, and opened the campaign with such remarkable sourness in her aspect when Ferdinand appeared, that her young lady could not help taking notice of her affected chagrin, and asked the reason of such apparent alteration in ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett


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