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confederal, a.|kənˈfɛdərəl|
[f. L. con- together + fœder- league, after federal, and the derivatives of confœderāre.]
Pertaining or relating to a confederation; spec. in U.S. Hist. pertaining to the early organization of the United States under the Articles of Confederation adopted in 1781.
1782Independent Ledger 4 Feb. 3/2 Washington and the confederal forces. Ibid., The confederal armies. 1866H. Phillips Amer. Paper Curr. II. 94 Portions..related to a confederal fund. 1866Athenæum No. 2032. 425/3 The struggle for confederal fusion. 1955C. J. Friedrich in A. W. Macmahon Federalism xxvi. 510 When the foreign ministers of the six nations..decided to establish..a Political Community..they provided..that this..should be..of ‘an ultimate federal or a confederal structure’. |