confederate

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See also: Confederate

English

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Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

  1. A member of a confederacy.
  2. An accomplice in a plot.
    • (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He found some of his confederates in gaol.
  3. (psychology) 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").

Translations

Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

  1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  2. banded together; allied.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

Quotations

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12
    Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,
    Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

Translations

Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle confederated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

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  1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective confederato.

Noun

confederate f pl

  1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
  2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
  3. feminine plural of confederato
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