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.
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.
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 : […]
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.
First attested in 1387, in Middle english; inherited from Middle English confederat(e) (“confederated, allied, associated in a plot; united or bound, as in friendship or troth”), borrowed from Late La...
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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.