Confederate vs Conspire - What's the difference?
confederate | conspire |
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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To secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 18
To agree, to concur to one end.
* Roscommon
* 1744 , , act 3, scene 5
To try to bring about.
* Bishop Hall
As verbs the difference between confederate and conspire
is that confederate is to combine into a confederacy while conspire is to secretly plot or make plans together, often used regarding something bad or illegal.As a noun confederate
is a member of a confederacy.As an adjective confederate
is of, relating to, or united in a confederacy.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.
Quotations
* , Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12 *: Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, *: Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleasVerb
(en-verb)conspire
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Verb
(conspir)- They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
- The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.
- I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire
- To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.
- Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
