Confederacy

Confederacy - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONFEDERACY, n. [L., a league. See Federal and Wed.]

1. A league, or covenant; a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each other, in some act or enterprise; mutual engagement; federal compact.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice. A confederacy of princes to check innovation.

2. The persons, states or nations united by a league.

Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.

3. In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.

Confederate - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONFEDERATE, a. [L.] United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.

These were confederate with Abram. Gen 14.

Syria is confederate with Ephraim. Isa 7.

CONFED'ERATE, n. One who is united with others in a league; a person or nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally.

CONFED'ERATE, v.i. [L.] To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant.

By words men come to know one another's minds; by these they covenant and confederate.

The colonies of America confederated in 1775.

Several States of Europe have sometimes confederated for mutual safety.

CONFED'ERATE, v.t. To unite in a league; to ally.

With these the Piercies them confederate.

kon-fed'-er-at, kon-fed'-er-a-si: "Confederate" as an adjective in the sense of united or leagued is twice the translation of berith "covenant," in several instances translated "league" (Ge 14:13, ba`al berith, "lord or master of a covenant," "an ally,") "these were confederate with Abram"; compare Ps 83:5; once of nuach, "to rest," "Syria is confederate with Ephraim" (Isa 7:2, the Revised Version, margin "resteth on Ephraim"; also 1 Macc 10:47).

As a noun "confederate" occurs in 1 Macc 10:16, summachos, "confederates" (1 Macc 8:20,24,31; 14:40; 15:17).

Confederacy, as a "league," occurs as the translation of berith, "the men of thy confederacy" (Obad 1:7); as a conspiracy it occurs in Isa 8:12 twice, as translation of qesher from qashar, "to bind": "Say ye not, a confederate." Compare 2Sa 15:12; 2Ki 12:20, etc.

W. L. Walker