confederate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
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.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more confederate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confederate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: confœderate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: confederates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: confœderate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: confederates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confederating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confederated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confederated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: confœderate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
pos: adj
gloss: Banded together; allied.
pos: adj
examples: 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
gloss: Confederated.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A member of a confederacy.
pos: noun
gloss: An accomplice in a plot.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An accomplice in a plot.
pos: noun
examples: So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?
gloss: To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: Confederate
Confederate flag
confederately
Confederate States
Confederate States of America
nonconfederate
confederateship
confederatism
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: заговорник
roman: zagovornik
lang: Bulgarian
word: съучастник
roman: sǎučastnik
lang: Russian
word: соуча́стник
roman: součástnik
lang: Russian
word: соо́бщник
roman: soóbščnik