confederate

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. (archaic, obsolete)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.”

4. (historical, not-comparable)Of or relating to the Confederate States of America.

   “Yes. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Attorney General and the unfortunate result of Dobby the house elf’s one-night stand with the Confederate flag, got in trouble this-, (enjoy!) got in trouble this week for undisclosed meetings with Russia’s ambassadors, something which, in itself, is not against the law.”

5. (historical, not-comparable)Of or relating to the political movement in favour of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
6. (historical, not-comparable)Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.

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”?”

4. (historical)A citizen of the Confederate States of America.

   “In fact, I heard everything in the world except that the Confederates lost the war. When I was ten years old, it was a violent shock to learn that General Lee had been defeated.”

5. (historical)A supporter of Confederation between Newfoundland and Canada.
6. (historical)A supporter of Irish Catholic self-rule during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To unite persons or states in a league, confederacy or conspiracy; to ally, league.

   “With them the gods were confederated to break barbarian arrogance.”

   “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.”