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Confederate   /kənfˈɛdərət/  /kənfˈɛdərˌeɪt/   Listen
Confederate

noun
1.
A supporter of the Confederate States of America.
2.
Someone who assists in a plot.  Synonyms: collaborator, henchman, partner in crime.
3.
A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan).  Synonym: accomplice.
verb
(past & past part. confederated; pres. part. confederating)
1.
Form a group or unite.  Synonym: band together.
2.
Form a confederation with; of nations.
adjective
1.
Of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War.
2.
United in a confederacy or league.  Synonyms: allied, confederative.



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"Confederate" Quotes from Famous Books



... to read this fragment mercifully dropped in Court by the child confederate of this slippery witness: it is headed Chorus, my lord; it doubtless forms a last part to the ridiculous song we all listened to in pained surprise. I contend, my Lord, that this fragment which has come into my possession is seditious; seditious, ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... yellow as gold, And patties and biscuit most rare to behold, And sauces that richest of odors betray,— Are marshalled in most appetizing array. Then Beverly brings of his nuts a full store, And Archie has apples, a dozen or more; While Sophy, with gratified housewifery, makes Her present of spicy "Confederate cakes." ...
— Beechenbrook - A Rhyme of the War • Margaret J. Preston
... in the preceding chapters how Spain became dominant in Italy, superseding the rivalry of confederate states by the monotony of servitude, and lending its weight to Papal Rome. The internal changes effected in the Church by the Tridentine Council, and the external power conferred on it, were due in no small ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... get the significance of Katie's laugh, however, for it was as to a confederate she ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... Penn's heart was moved within him, and with all the fervid indignation of youth he stepped forward to draw the sword of the Lord. He printed a letter to Muggleton which should reassure the waverers. It thundered out defiance. "Boast not," he says, "thou enemy of God, thou son of perdition and confederate with the unclean croaking spirits reserved under chains to eternal darkness.... I boldly challenge thee with thy six-foot God and all the host of Luciferian spirits, with all your commissions, ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp


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