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English
Adjective
confœderate (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of confederate.
Noun
confœderate (plural confœderates)
- Archaic spelling of confederate.
- 1663, Newhavens case stated, section 21: subsection 3; reprinted in:
1858, Records of the Colony Or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the Union, page 529:Toward vs, your neighbours, your bretheren, yor confœderates, by vertue wherof it is yor dutye to prserue vnto vs our colonie state, power & priuilidges, against all others that would oppose vs therein or incroach vpon vs.
Verb
confœderate (third-person singular simple present confœderates, present participle confœderating, simple past and past participle confœderated)
- Archaic spelling of confederate.
1937, Isabel MacBeath Calder, Letters of John Davenport: Puritan Divine, Yale University Press, page 247:[…] scituation is the same now as it was before our confœderating, and ever since, and affords noe more ground now to dissanull the coven[an]t then before; […]