confederacyn.

/kənˈfɛdərəsi/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s confeþeracy, confetheracy, Middle English–1600s confederacie, 1500s confederatie.

Etymology: Anglo-Norman and Middle English confederacie, < stem of Latin confoederātio , medieval Latin confoederātus : see -acy suffix.

a. A union by league or contract between persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or joint action; a league, alliance, compact.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > an alliance or association for common purpose

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consociation1603

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consortium1881

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 271 After þe sevenþe ȝere of þe confeþeracye [L. initi fœderis] he fauȝt aȝenst þe Angles oft in smal bataylles.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War viii. xviii. 201 They..caused the towne to tourne to their confederatie.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 28 Threescore and tenne men whiche were of his confetheracie.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 461 The league and confederacie that was concluded betwene them.

1611 Bible (King James) Obad. 7.

1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 157 The Confederacy of Two Companies of Men to expose Two Lights to each others view, so that the discovery of the one, may answer immediately to that of the other.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 2 A general confederacy against the Ottoman power.

1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 10 To..break down the confederacy of the great Whig families.

b. Law (and thence gen.), in bad sense: A league for an unlawful or evil purpose; a conspiracy.

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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > a plot > a conspiracy

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confederation1535

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champerty1622

cabal1663

frame-up1899

frame1914

stitch-up1980

1353 Act 27 Edw. III Stat. ii. c. 3 Facent entre eux..compaignie ne confederacie en fraude ou deceite.]

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 39 Þei shullen makyn no meyntenaunce ne confederacie ageyn þe kyngis right.

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 53 Thus haue ye..by your fals confederacy destroubled my Royamme.

1533 T. More Apol. xliv, in Wks. 914/2 He calleth those assemblinges..by y^e name of confederacies..for ought that I see he geueth a good thyng and an holesome, an odious heynous name.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. ii. 3 in Wks. II Why, this is a confederacy, a meere piece of practice vpon her, by these Impostors?

a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 3 Engag'd in a general Confederacy to bring Vice into esteem.

1763 J. Wesley in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. xciv. 16 Confederacies, to carry on the works of darkness.

1829 R. Southey Oliver Newman vii Philip is the head Of the confederacy: his crafty brain..plans the mischief.

a. (without a or plural) Condition or fact of being confederate: union for joint action, alliance. In a bad sense: Conspiracy, collusion.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun]

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confederateship1837

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we-ness1920

us-ness1927

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > conspiracy

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1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 189 Moses..commanded..Aaron to fill a vessell, and place the same in the Arke of confederacie.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F3 The Sciences..which haue had better intelligence and confederacie with the imagination..than with..reason.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 73 Two were indicted of Confederacie.

1677 C. Hatton Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 146 They were guilty of confederacy.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 44 In close confederacy with the duke of Albany.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ii. 39 In a perpetual state of confederacy and rebellion.

1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 134 Philip was in confederacy with Muley Moluck, and therefore could not send troops against him.

†b. carnal confederacy n. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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Sir Berkeley1937

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fanny1993

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xxiii. 562 Before that the sonnes of God..had any carnall confederacy with the daughters of men.

3. quasi-concrete. A collective body of persons or parties united by league; a body of confederates; now esp. a union of states, a confederation. Southern Confederacy: the Confederate States of America. Confederacy now usually implies a looser or more temporary association than confederation, which is applied to a union of states organized on an intentionally permanent basis.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose

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united front1807

class movement1839

company1839

paction1877

combine1889

protest movement1898

protest group1920

minority movement1923

we1926

power1966

society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a union or confederacy of states

confederation1621

confederacy1681

incorporating union1706

United States1784

federacy1803

trialism1908

union1909

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1724/1 In East Kent there were other..of the same confederacie.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 193 She is one of this confederacy. ]

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 74 The Grecians..were forced to League themselves (yet in several Confederacies, as that of the Etolians, that of the Achaians, etc.) for their mutual defence.

1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 17 The United Provinces are a confederacy of many independent states.

1777 U.S. Senate Manual (1886) (Articles of Confederation) 14 The stile of this confederacy shall be ‘The United States of America’.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 179 The literary world is made up of little confederacies.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 47 A proposal..to transfer the treasury of the confederacy from Delos to Athens.

1861 Const. Confed. States Amer. The citizens of each State..shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy.

1861 Motley in Times 23 May The body politic known for 70 years as the United States of America is not a Confederacy, not a compact of Sovereign States, not a co-partnership; it is a Commonwealth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	confederacy
释义	confederacyn. /kənˈfɛdərəsi/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s confeþeracy, confetheracy, Middle English–1600s confederacie, 1500s confederatie. Etymology: Anglo-Norman and Middle English confederacie, < stem of Latin confoederātio , medieval Latin confoederātus : see -acy suffix. 1. a. A union by league or contract between persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or joint action; a league, alliance, compact. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > an alliance or association for common purpose confederacya1387 league1452 allya1481 confedereya1513 consociation1603 closea1616 party1624 combinement1658 collegationa1700 confederateship1715 consortium1881 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance confederacya1387 fellowshipa1400 band1452 league1452 societyc1540 federacy1598 confederation1621 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 271 After þe sevenþe ȝere of þe confeþeracye [L. initi fœderis] he fauȝt aȝenst þe Angles oft in smal bataylles. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War viii. xviii. 201 They..caused the towne to tourne to their confederatie. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 28 Threescore and tenne men whiche were of his confetheracie. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 461 The league and confederacie that was concluded betwene them. 1611 Bible (King James) Obad. 7. 1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 157 The Confederacy of Two Companies of Men to expose Two Lights to each others view, so that the discovery of the one, may answer immediately to that of the other. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 2 A general confederacy against the Ottoman power. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 10 To..break down the confederacy of the great Whig families. b. Law (and thence gen.), in bad sense: A league for an unlawful or evil purpose; a conspiracy. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > a plot > a conspiracy feudc1300 conspirationa1340 conspiracyc1386 confederacy1389 conspirement1393 confederation1535 complot1587 combine1610 champerty1622 cabal1663 frame-up1899 frame1914 stitch-up1980 1353 Act 27 Edw. III Stat. ii. c. 3 Facent entre eux..compaignie ne confederacie en fraude ou deceite.] 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 39 Þei shullen makyn no meyntenaunce ne confederacie ageyn þe kyngis right. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 53 Thus haue ye..by your fals confederacy destroubled my Royamme. 1533 T. More Apol. xliv, in Wks. 914/2 He calleth those assemblinges..by y^e name of confederacies..for ought that I see he geueth a good thyng and an holesome, an odious heynous name. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. ii. 3 in Wks. II Why, this is a confederacy, a meere piece of practice vpon her, by these Impostors? a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 3 Engag'd in a general Confederacy to bring Vice into esteem. 1763 J. Wesley in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. xciv. 16 Confederacies, to carry on the works of darkness. 1829 R. Southey Oliver Newman vii Philip is the head Of the confederacy: his crafty brain..plans the mischief. 2. a. (without a or plural) Condition or fact of being confederate: union for joint action, alliance. In a bad sense: Conspiracy, collusion. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] onehead1340 alliance?a1400 union?a1425 union?1435 allya1445 alliage1450 allyc1450 association1535 sociation1579 combination1593 confederacy1594 adhesion1614 coalescency1645 togetherness1656 compendance1658 junction1783 affiliation1791 confederateship1837 allyship1849 solidification1891 togetherhood1896 we-ness1920 us-ness1927 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > conspiracy conspiracyc1386 conspiration1388 confederationc1530 faction1549 conspiring1561 combination1593 complotment1594 confederacy1594 complotting1607 colluding1611 compacta1616 trinketing1646 caballinga1680 cabal1738 colloguing1880 collogue1887 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 189 Moses..commanded..Aaron to fill a vessell, and place the same in the Arke of confederacie. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F3 The Sciences..which haue had better intelligence and confederacie with the imagination..than with..reason. View more context for this quotation 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 73 Two were indicted of Confederacie. 1677 C. Hatton Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 146 They were guilty of confederacy. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 44 In close confederacy with the duke of Albany. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ii. 39 In a perpetual state of confederacy and rebellion. 1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 134 Philip was in confederacy with Muley Moluck, and therefore could not send troops against him. †b. carnal confederacy n. Obsolete. rare. 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Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xxiii. 562 Before that the sonnes of God..had any carnall confederacy with the daughters of men. 3. quasi-concrete. A collective body of persons or parties united by league; a body of confederates; now esp. a union of states, a confederation. Southern Confederacy: the Confederate States of America. Confederacy now usually implies a looser or more temporary association than confederation, which is applied to a union of states organized on an intentionally permanent basis. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose covinc1330 lyancec1380 university?1473 army1540 band1557 union1603 coalescence1609 confederation1621 associationa1658 confederacy1681 federation1791 brigade1806 united front1807 class movement1839 company1839 paction1877 combine1889 protest movement1898 protest group1920 minority movement1923 we1926 power1966 society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a union or confederacy of states confederation1621 confederacy1681 incorporating union1706 United States1784 federacy1803 trialism1908 union1909 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1724/1 In East Kent there were other..of the same confederacie. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 193 She is one of this confederacy. View more context for this quotation] 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 74 The Grecians..were forced to League themselves (yet in several Confederacies, as that of the Etolians, that of the Achaians, etc.) for their mutual defence. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 17 The United Provinces are a confederacy of many independent states. 1777 U.S. Senate Manual (1886) (Articles of Confederation) 14 The stile of this confederacy shall be ‘The United States of America’. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 179 The literary world is made up of little confederacies. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 47 A proposal..to transfer the treasury of the confederacy from Delos to Athens. 1861 Const. Confed. States Amer. The citizens of each State..shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy. 1861 Motley in Times 23 May The body politic known for 70 years as the United States of America is not a Confederacy, not a compact of Sovereign States, not a co-partnership; it is a Commonwealth. 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