English

Adjective

confœderate ‎(not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of confederate.

Noun

confœderate ‎(plural confœderates)

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^rconfœderates, by vertue wherof it is yo^r dutye to p^rserue vnto vs our colonie state, power & priuilidges, against all others that would oppose vs therein or incroach vpon vs.

Verb

confœderate ‎(third-person singular simple present confœderates, present participle confœderating, simple past and past participle confœderated)

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 confœderating, and ever since, and affords noe more ground now to dissanull the coven[an]t then before; […]

Related terms

• confœderation