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/kənfˈɛdərət/ /kənfˈɛdərˌeɪt/ Listen

noun

Confederate n.

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."

(Amer. Hist.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

verb

Confederate v. t. (past & past part. confederated; pres. part. confederating) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally. "With these the Piercies them confederate."

Confederate v. i. To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together. "By words men... covenant and confederate."

adjective

Confederate adj.

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."

(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.

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"Confederate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to help him in his extremity, that the detective was favourably impressed. He had already felt a suspicion that he had been sent here on a fool's errand, and no one could have looked less like a daring criminal, and the trusted confederate of still more daring ruffians, than did ...

— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey

... the custom in Berlin and some other large German towns, and the evil results of such a system are manifold. Over and over again burglaries have been traced to it. One beguiling man engages your maid to dance and sup with him, while his confederate gets hold of her key and comfortably rifles your rooms. On the girls themselves these entertainments are said to have the worst possible influence, and most sensible Germans would put a stop to them if ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

... Hotchkiss, of 1867, than which nothing can be more even-handed, or more admirable as far as it goes, adopts generally the statements made in the reports of the Confederate generals: and these are necessarily one-sided; reports of general officers concerning their own operations invariably are. Allan and Hotchkiss wrote with only the Richmond records before them, in addition to such information from the Federal standpoint as may be ...

— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge

... days in Hawkeye as well as in most other Missouri towns, days of confusion, when between Unionist and Confederate occupations, sudden maraudings and bush-whackings and raids, individuals escaped observation or comment in actions that would have filled the town with scandal ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... be reunited and begin its march up the Peninsula. It had hardly got well under way, when much to the disappointment of the country it found itself stopped for thirty days, by an insignificant stream and a weak line of entrenchments held by a few guns and a single division of Confederate Infantry, under the command of ...

— Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar - Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War • James Harrison Wilson

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