Crossword clues for federate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Federate \Fed"er*ate\, a. [L. foederatus, p. p. of foederare to establish by treaty or league, fr. foedus. See Federal.] United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Syn: federated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814 (implied in federated), a back-formation from federation, or else from Latin foederatus "leagued, federated, combined; having a treaty, bound by treaty," past participle of foederare "to establish by treaty," from foedus "covenant, treaty, alliance" (see federal). Related: Federating. As an adjective, by 1710.
Wiktionary
federated, united in an alliance or federation. alt. federated, united in an alliance or federation. v
To unite in a federation.
WordNet
v. enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: federalize, federalise]
unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: federalize, federalise]
adj. united under a central government [syn: federated]
Usage examples of "federate".
Curious by nature, Aril had studied the Federate register between watches.
So we ate a hasty lunch of vichyssoise and ice cream and had Buster drive us in the Rolls to the Federated Department Store where we bought a great many things for the new house and a new horse blanket for Dan.
Its status shifted recently to Federate protectorship because of a conflict over a Federate colony world, VeeRon.
Behind her, one of them quizzed Shel about Federate training techniques.
Federates had occupied the opera-house immediately after the eighteenth of March and had made a starting-place right at the top for their Mongolfier balloons, which carried their incendiary proclamations to the departments, and a state prison right at the bottom.
Jones down fifteen points, Federated Confidence up three, incoming briefing on causal decoupling of social control of skirt hem lengths, shaving pattern of beards, and emergence of multidrug antibiotic resistance in gram negative bacilli: accept?
Jones down fifteen points, Federated Confidence up three, incoming briefing on causal decoupling of social control of skirt hem lengths, shaving pattern of beards, and emergence of multidrug antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacilli: Accept?
The Forum, like the South Pacific Commission, has grown with the list of independent nations, and in 1987, its members were the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, the Solomons, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu and Western Samoa, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
The Constitution guaranteed every Federated World at least one representative in the Legislative Assembly, but the Reapportionment had pushed the qualifying population base for each additional representative up to ten million.
Federates spread out to join battle, the high-altitude scouts continued to send in word of settlements bombed to dustclouds, life and structures wiped from VeeRon with callous, methodical deliberation.
Maintaining an indolent slouch, Rattela eyed the Federates with disdain.
Feeling a traitor to Naetai, and to the Federates a barbarian, she had nowhere to turn, and for the first time she really wished she were dead.
Let us remember that the Federates hesitated to approach our system at the very moment classic strategy would have suggested they strike.
How could the Federates allow Firebird to be punished for an act that had been the key to their victory?
The difficulty was only to find such form as would permit to federate the unions of the guilds without interfering with the unions of the village communities, and to federate all these into one harmonious whole.