confœderate

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of confederate.

plural confœderates

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of confederate.

   1663, Newhavens case stated, section 21: subsection 3; reprinted in:

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   Toward vs, your neighbours, your bretheren, yoʳ confœderates, by vertue wherof it is yoʳ dutye to pʳserue vnto vs our colonie state, power & priuilidges, against all others that would oppose vs therein or incroach vpon vs.

   1858, Records of the Colony Or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the Union, page 529

present singular third person confœderates · participle present confœderating · participle past confœderated · past confœderated

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of confederate.

   […] 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; […]

   1937, Isabel MacBeath Calder, Letters of John Davenport: Puritan Divine, Yale University Press, page 247