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[syn: allied, confederate, confederative]
5. joined by treaty or agreement;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ally \Al*ly"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Allying.] [OE. alien, OF. alier, F. alier, fr. L. alligare
to bind to; ad + ligare to bind. Cf. Alligate, Alloy,
Allay, Ligament.]
1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between
families by marriage, or between princes and states by
treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or
with.
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O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. --Pope.
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2. To connect or form a relation between by similitude,
resemblance, friendship, or love.
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These three did love each other dearly well,
And with so firm affection were allied. --Spenser.
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The virtue nearest to our vice allied. --Pope.
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Note: Ally is generally used in the passive form or
reflexively.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Allied \Al*lied"\, a.
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
allied
adj 1: related by common characteristics or ancestry; "allied
species"; "allied studies"
2: of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War II; "an
Allied victory"; "the Allied armies"
3: of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I; "an
allied offensive"; "the Allied powers"
4: united in a confederacy or league [syn: allied,
confederate, confederative]
5: joined by treaty or agreement
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "allied":
affiliate, affiliated, affinitive, agnate, akin, assembled,
associate, associated, avuncular, banded together, bound,
bracketed, cabalistic, closely related, cognate, collateral,
collected, confederate, confederated, congeneric, congenerous,
congenial, conjoined, conjugate, connate, connatural, connected,
consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conspecific,
conspiratorial, copulate, corporate, correlated, correlative,
coupled, distantly related, enate, enleagued, federate, federated,
foster, gathered, german, germane, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand,
implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with,
incident, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked,
interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, kindred, knotted,
leagued, linked, married, matched, mated, matrilateral,
matrilineal, matroclinous, merged, novercal, of that ilk,
of that kind, of the blood, paired, parallel, partners with,
patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, related, sib, sibling,
similar, spliced, teamed, tied, twinned, undivided, united,
unseparated, uterine, wed, wedded, yoked