Confœderate

Full definition of confœderate

Adjective

1. Archaic spelling of confederate

Noun

1. 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, yo^r confÅ“derates, by vertue wherof it is yo

Verb

1. Archaic spelling of confederate
• 1937, Isabel MacBeath Calder, Letters of John Davenport: Puritan Divine, page 247 (Yale University Press):... scituation is the same now as it was before our confÅ“derating, and ever since, and affords noe more ground now to dissanull the covenant then before; ...

Related terms

• confÅ“deration