confederate

Etymology

noun

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
   So how do you win the imitation game? “Just be yourself,” a past confederate advises Christian. But what does it mean to “be yourself”? 2011-03-18, David Leavitt, “I Took the Turing Test”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

adj

1. Of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. Banded together; allied.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.
   All persons who conspire confederate and agree to murder any person whether a subject of Her Majesty or not and whether within the Queen's dominions or not, […] shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years. 1958, Parliament of Victoria, “Part I, Division 1, section 4”, in Crimes Act 1958, page 806