Confederated vs Confederates - What's the difference?
confederated | confederates |
(confederate)
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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As a verb confederated
is past tense of confederate.As a noun confederates is
plural of confederate.confederated
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* (archaic)Verb
(head)confederate
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* (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.