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world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

een, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded against his throne." Milton. Banded architrave, pier, shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

a. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inbabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. I know their complot is to have my life. Shak.

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied. All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace. Shak.

The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy. Articles of confederation. See under Article.

To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. Mallet.

rsons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. Burke.

Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. "A federative society." Burke.

To set on foot; to establish; to land. [Obs.] What confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom Shak.

Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.

An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At on…

Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.