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Confederate
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
(2):
(n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
(3):
(v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
(4):
(n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
(5):
(v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
(6):
(a.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Confederate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/confederate.html. 1828.
