Crossword clues for seceded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secede \Se"cede"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Seceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seceding.] [L. secedere, secessum; pref se- aside + cedere to go, move. See Cede.] To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: secede)
Usage examples of "seceded".
As predicted, old Washington was boycotting the ball, while most of the Southern congressional had either gone home to their seceded states or declined to attend the Inaugural Ball as they had declined to attend the inauguration itself.
In any case, Seward’s use of the old man had ended with the rejection of Scott’s advice to abandon Fort Sumter, prompted entirely by Seward, who had believed then and still believed that, given a foreign war, the seceded states would return to the fold.
Since a third of the membership belonged to states that had seceded, there would be a Northern Congress, with a large Republican majority.
Four days before that, Winfield Scott had offered him command over the armies of the United States, to lead them against their seceded brethren.
He had also continued to believe, against all evidence, that considerable pro-Union sentiment remained in the seceded states.
Without them, from what they'd said, Lincoln would still be President, and President of a nation intent on taking vengeance on the unsuccessfully seceded Southern states.
In 1861, before Alabama seceded, he directed the seizure of United States forts and arsenals and was active afterward in the equipment of State troops.
Lowndes's solemn words when she heard that South Carolina had seceded alone: "As thy days so shall thy strength be.
When Virginia seceded, he resigned his commission in the United States Army.
And what a contempt those who seceded a few days sooner feel for those who have just come out!
Finally we Humanites seceded from the Brotherhood and seized this city, Anshan.
He took and joined it onto this county here, the same way we seceded the county from the state three months before they got the state seceded from the Union.
I’m mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.
West Pakistan comprised the provinces of Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province, Punjab, and Sind, and it became the state of Pakistan in 1971 after East Pakistan seceded to become independent Bangladesh.
Already, the Union was challenging the Federation's hegemony by sending armored units forward between the Mississippi and Dallas, and flying provocative military demonstrations over the seceded territory.