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6. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0537.png:[blocks in formation] whether they will confeder them selfs with and other outward prynce." -Burnet: Rec. No. 31, Prop. to the King's Council. B. In trans.: To join with, to a ociate one's self to. "So for purpose she thought it very good With former foes in friendship to confeder ." Mirror for Magistrates , p. 337. con-fěd-er-aç-ř, s. [Eng. confederat (e); -y.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A league or compact by which several persons engage to support each other; a union, an engage ment, a treaty. "Judas sent them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy with them."-1 Maccabees viii. 17. 2. A number of persons, parties, or states, confederated for mutual aid and support; a league, a confederation, a coalition. two rival confederacies of statesmen, a confederacy zealous for authority and antiquity, and a confederacy zealous for liberty and progre ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. i. II. Law : A combination or conspiracy of two or more persons to carry out any illegal act.