confederate

UK /kənˈfɛdəɹət/ US /kənˈfɛdəɹət/
adj 6noun 6verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy

2

Banded together; allied.

All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

3

Confederated.

Remember as thou read'ſt, thy promiſe paſt : I do repent me, reade not my name there, My heart is not confederate with my hand.

And it was told the house of Dauid, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and his heart was moued, and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are mooued with the wind.

noun

1

A member of a confederacy.

2

An accomplice in a plot.

By'th'vvay, vve met my vvife, her ſiſter, and a rabble more Of vilde confederates : […]

He found some of his confederates in gaol.

3

An accomplice in a plot.

So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”?

verb

1

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

All persons who conspire confederate and agree to murder any person whether a subject of Her Majesty or not and whether within the Queen's dominions or not, […] shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years.

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