confederate

• confœderate (archaic)

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confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
   • Macaulay

     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 (also known as a "stooge").

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.
   • Shakespeare

     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.

confederate

1. Feminine plural of adjective confederato.

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. feminine plural of confederato