Crossword clues for confederate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confederate \Con*fed"er*ate\, v. i. To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
By words men . . . covenant and confederate.
--South.
Confederate \Con*fed"er*ate\, a. [L. confoederatus, p. p. of confoederare to join by a league; con- + foederare to establish by treaty or league, fr. foedus league, compact. See Federal.]
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United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace.
--Shak. (Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
Confederate \Con*fed"er*ate\, n.
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One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
He found some of his confederates in gaol.
--Macaulay. (Amer. Hist.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
Confederate \Con*fed"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confederated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confederating.] To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
With these the Piercies them confederate.
--Daniel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin confoederatus "leagued together," past participle of confoederare "to unite by a league," from com- "with, together" (see com-) + foederare, from foedus (genitive foederis) "a league" (see federal). Also used as a past participle adjective from late 14c., as a simple adjective from 1550s; meaning "of or belonging to the Confederate States of America" is from 1861. Used as a noun from late 15c. (Late Latin confoederatus also was used as a noun in its day).
Wiktionary
1 of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 2 banded together; allied. alt. 1 a member of a confederacy 2 an accomplice in a plot 3 (context psychology English) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge"). n. 1 a member of a confederacy 2 an accomplice in a plot 3 (context psychology English) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge"). v
To combine into a confederacy.
WordNet
v. form a group or unite; "The groups banded together" [syn: band together]
form a confederation with; of nations
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "confederate".
The Confederates only tried balloons a few times, I think, and I only saw one of those being actually sent up.
Confederate doorman Banat had taken it upon himself to institute a new system of doorkeeping.
As a boy in Leake County, Barnett would sit on the porch under a chinaberry tree and listen to his father, John William Barnett, tell tales of his years as a Confederate soldier, witnessing the siege of Vicksburg, having his horse shot out from under him at the Battle of Shilo, and seeing his own father, Captain John Henry Barnett, return home from four years in the Confederate army in clothes riddled by Union gunfire.
I intend to concentrate all the barrels in First Army and hurl them like a spear at the Confederate line.
Assuming the chief command in the Confederate army in the second campaign of the war, he repelled three or four invasions of Virginia, winning as many pitched battles over an enemy of enormously superior resources.
Aaron Morris Belton, late of the Fluvanna Light Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America.
What Bravais quickly discovers is a conspiracy by aliens and their human confederates to harvest brains as onboard guidance units for weapons in an interstellar war.
Why, on the voyage of the Bronx to the Gulf, Ensign Passford, as he was then, discovered two Confederate officers in his crew, and squarely defeated their efforts to capture his ship in the action with the Scotian, I believe it was.
The fact that the Bronx is headed into a Confederate port would not create a rebellion on board unless they were informed of the actual situation.
Lee smiled, both at the byplay he watched and at the way of life a Confederate victory had preserved.
He had lost an arm in the Confederate service, and was recognized by the gambling fraternity as the gamest man among all the trail drovers, while every cowman from the Rio Grande to the Yellowstone knew him as a poker-player.
Confederate machine guns, some on the barrels and others served by infantrymen, made the damnyankee riflemen keep their heads down.
Just the other side of Lubbock, Confederate and damnyankee gunners were doing their best to blow each other to hell and gone.
An awful lot of brave Confederate officers--and damnyankees, too--had died leading from the front.
White House Deseret had suggested a protectorate status for the eastern seaboard, but the Old South preferred to confederate on its own.