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confederer (s.xii3/4)
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confederer (s.xii3/4)

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confedrer,  confiderer  
  FEW:  foedus 3,676a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  confederer 9,150a TL: ∅ DEAF:  confederation (confederer)  DMF:  confédérer  TLF:  confédérer  OED:  confeder v.  MED:  confederen v.  DMLBS:  confoederare 435b

v.trans. & refl.

to join, ally oneself: 
( 1377 )  (tenants) sont (l. s’ont?) confedrés & entrealiés de countrestere lour ditz seigneurs  Rot Parl1 iii 21
( 1411 )  eux confederantz & ensurantz ensemble pur lour singuler profit  Rot Parl1 iii 665
( 1421 )  ové autres lour complices faulxement entreliez et confederez  King’s Bench vii 255

p.p. as a.

united, acting together: 
( s.xiv-xv )  les aldermans serrount esluz […] par le dit maieur et aldermans confederee [sic]  YMB ii 258
( 1419 )  R., fitz J.O., [...] et J.R. […] fauxement entreliez et confedereez, machinantz la mort et la disheritance J.L. […]  Rot Parl1 iv 119

p.p.as s.

ally: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les Jewes as messages respons ont donez Qe of le roy Dayre sont confederetz  Rom Chev ANTS 1262
confederé a
allied to, in league with: 
( 1406-07 )  William Chipstede ové autres de sa covygne a luy confiderez […]  Goldsmiths 322
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