Coadjutor vs Confederate - What's the difference?
coadjutor | confederate | Related terms |
An assistant or helper.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:
(ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
* 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:
* 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:
a member of a confederacy
an accomplice in a plot
* Macaulay
(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").
of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
banded together; allied.
* Shakespeare
To combine into a confederacy.
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Coadjutor is a related term of confederate.
As nouns the difference between coadjutor and confederate
is that coadjutor is an assistant or helper while confederate is a supporter or resident of the confederate states of america.As an adjective confederate is
of or relating to the confederate states of america.coadjutor
English
Noun
(en noun)- The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor ’s white, startled face.
- When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
- August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.
confederate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- He found some of his confederates in gaol.
Adjective
(en adjective)- All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.
