i Register
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adj
Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
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
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
A member of a confederacy.
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.
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
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.