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The Commons did not quite know what to style the meetings, using in this short Act the following terms for them: Chapters, Assemblies, Congregations, and Confederacies.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

Confederacies in learning—every     great work the work of one.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

In their haste to take possession of our squadron, the Confederacies had dropped some sparks from their pipes into the powder-magazine, blowing our entire armament back to us!

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.

Swiftly following the vanguard, and evidently fancying that it was flying before them, came a regiment of Confederacies.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

Confederacies in all probability existed among such contiguous pueblos as spoke the same dialect, as the Cibolans were probably confederated, and as the Aztecs, Tezcucans, and Tlacopans are known to have been.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.