Middle English Dictionary Entry
confederāt ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | confederāt ppl. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Confederated, allied; (b) associated in a plot.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.157 : The Scottes, þat were somtyme confederat and wonede wiþ þe Pictes, drawe somwhat after hir speche.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.4696 : Þei han hem amonge Fifty kynges worþi of renoun, Confederat to oure destruccioun.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)660 : Confederat men aydaunt is to se..by trewce or toleraunce, As Frensh ar suffred here and we in Fraunce.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.435 : Eneas, commenge to Ytaly, was confederate [Trev.: confedered] with Euander kynge.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.45 : Ptholomeus ȝafe batelle ageyn Anthiocus..but after that thei were confederate.
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.47 : Thre wickede men..confederate to geder, feynede a mater ageyne that bischoppe.
2.
(a) United or bound, as in friendship or troth; ~ in herte; ~ bi bond of trouthe; (b) intimate (union).
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6547 : To be confederat Wiþ hym in herte.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.3829 : Vn-to hym she was be bond of trouþe Confederat.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.1022 : O Fortune, fals and vnassured, Þat [to] no man was neuer fully lured..With bond of feith to be confederat.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)380/174 : With the holy martir to be confederat, As kyng with kyng.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)186 : In accord confederat been they too.
b
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)236 : To have..of scryptures Iust Reconysaunce; To haue with them confederat Allyaunce.