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ConfederateConfederate Con*fed"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Confederated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confederating.]
To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
With these the Piercies them confederate. --Daniel. Confederate
Confederate Con*fed"er*ate, v. i.
To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or
covenant; to band together.
By words men . . . covenant and confederate. --South.
ConfederateConfederate Con*fed"er*ate, a. [L. confoederatus, p. p. of
confoederare to join by a league; con- + foederare to
establish by treaty or league, fr. foedus league, compact.
See Federal.]
1. 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. --Shak.
2. (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. Confederate
Confederate Con*fed"er*ate, n.
1. 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.
--Macaulay.
2. (Amer. Hist.) A name designating an adherent to the cause
of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union
(1860-1865).
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wagons supplying the front.
Confederates slowed the
Yankee invaders, at
heavy cost to the
Southern infrastructure. The
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whereby the
Confederates undertook to pay
Ormonde £30,000 in
stages up to May 1644, half in cash and half in live cattle. In 1644 the
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Chapel Hill
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Attic to its
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- on both
sides and
forced Lee's
Confederates to fall back repeatedly. At the
Battle of
Yellow Tavern, the
Confederates lost Jeb Stuart. An
attempt to outflank...
- flag. Many
Confederates disliked the
Stars and Bars,
seeing it as
symbolic of a
centralized federal power against which the
Confederate states claimed...
- the
Confederates suffered a
string of
defeats by the
Parliamentarians at Dungan's Hill,
Cashel and Knock****s. This
prompted the
Confederates to make...
- The
Jewish Confederates is a 2001
history book aut****d by
Robert N.
Rosen about Jewish citizens of the
Confederate States of
America who
served in the...
