confederate
See also: Confederate
English
editAlternative forms
edit- confœderate (archaic)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editconfederate (plural confederates)
- A member of a confederacy.
- An accomplice in a plot.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- He found some of his confederates in gaol.
- (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
- Synonym: stooge
Translations
edita member of a confederacy
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an accomplice in a plot
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an actor in an experiment
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Adjective
editconfederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)
- Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
- Banded together; allied.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.
Quotations
edit- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12
- Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,
- Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas
Translations
editof, relating to, or united in a confederacy
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banded together; allied
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Verb
editconfederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.
- 1958, Parliament of Victoria, “Part I, Division 1, section 4”, in Crimes Act 1958[2], page 806:
- 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 terms
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editconfederate f pl
Participle
editconfederate f pl
Etymology 2
editNoun
editconfederate f pl
Etymology 3
editVerb
editconfederate
- inflection of confederare:
Spanish
editVerb
editconfederate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of confederar combined with te
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