confederate

Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. Banded together; allied.
3. Confederated.

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.

1. To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.

1. Of or relating to the Confederate States of America.
2. Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
3. Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.

1. A citizen of the Confederate States of America.
2. A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
3. A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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.

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