confederate

• confœderate (archaic)

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛdəɹət/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛdəɹeɪt/

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confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 21, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     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.

   Synonym: stooge

   • 2011 March 18, David Leavitt, “I Took the Turing Test”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

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

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. Banded together; allied.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

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

• 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

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.
   • 1958, Parliament of Victoria, “Part I, Division 1, section 4”, in Crimes Act 1958‎, page 806:

     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.

confederate f pl

1. feminine plural of confederato

confederate f pl

1. feminine plural of confederato

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

confederate

1. inflection of confederare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

confederate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of confederar combined with te