[ad. L. fœderātus, pa. pple. of fœderāre: see next.]
A. adj. Federated, confederate, allied, in league.
1710. Shaftesb., Adv. to Author, II. § 2. 83. Those compos’d of federate Tribes, or mix’t Colonys.
1766. Warburton, Alliance betw. Church & State, II. iii. (ed. 4), 194. In a federate Alliance, the two Societies still subsist intire.
1808. G. Edwards, Pract. Plan, i. 3. The possibility of the maritime superiority of France, and her federate powers.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, II. 427. [Me,] who have followed Trojans’ fed’rate arms.
1885. Pall Mall G., 28 Oct., 2/1. There may … be the greatest inequality between the federate States.
B. sb. 1. One of the parties to a covenant.
1671. Flavel, Fount. Life, iii. 6. Redemption … differs from the Covenant of Grace … in regard of the Federates.
2. French Hist. Used as a translation of Fr. fédéré. a. A member of one of the armed associations formed during the first French Revolution, or during the Hundred Days in 1815, or a member of the Commune in 1871. b. A deputy to the Fête of the Federation, July 14, 1790.
1792. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 49. They invited armed federates, as they were called, in July 1791, to Paris.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. xi. From all points of the compass, Federates are arriving.
1871. Echo, 12 April, 3. It seems to me that the Government of Versailles has all along taken a wrong estimate of the federates of the Commune.
