CONFAMILIAR
CONFAMILIAR, adjective Very familiar. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CONFARREATION
CONFARREATION, noun [Latin, to join in marriage with a cake, corn or meal.] The solemnization of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in which the bridegroom and bride taste...
CONFATED
CONFATED, adjective Fated together. [Not in use.]
CONFECT
CONFECT, verb transitive To make sweetmeats. [Not used. See Comfit.]CONFECT, noun [Latin, See Comfit.] Something prepared with sugar or honey, as fruit, hergs, roots and the lik...
CONFECTION
CONFECTION, noun [Latin, to make.]1. Any thing prepared with sugar, as fruit; a sweetmeat; something preserved.2. A composition or mixture.3. A soft electuary.
CONFECTIONARY
CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONER, noun One whose occupation is to make, or to sell sweetmeats, etc. [The latter word is most generally used.]
CONFECTIONER
CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONER noun One whose occupation is to make, or to sell sweetmeats, etc. [The latter word is most generally used.]CONFECTIONARY, noun1. A place for sweetmea...
CONFECTOR
CONFECTOR, noun [Latin] An officer in the Roman games, whose business was to kill any beast that was dangerous.
CONFECTORY
CONFECTORY, adjective Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.
CONFEDERACY
CONFEDERACY, noun [Latin, a league. See Federal and Wed.]1. A league, or covenant; a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each o...
CONFEDERATE
CONFEDERATE, adjective [Latin] United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.These were confederate with Abram. Genesis 14:13.Syria is confederate with Ephraim....
CONFEDERATED
CONFED'ERATED, participle passive United in a league.
CONFEDERATING
CONFED'ERATING, participle present tense Uniting in a league.
CONFEDERATION
CONFEDERA'TION, [Latin]1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance; particularly of princes, nations or states.The three princes enter into a s...
CONFER
CONFER', verb intransitive [Latin, to bear, to bring forth, to show, to declare. See Bear.] To discourse; to converse; to consult together; implying conversation on some serious...
CONFERENCE
CON'FERENCE, noun [See Confer.]1. The act of conversing on a serious subject; a discoursing between two or more, for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation; f...
CONFERRED
CONFER'RED, participle passive Given; imparted; bestowed.
CONFERRER
CONFER'RER, noun One who confers; one who converses; one who bestows.
CONFERRING
CONFER'RING, participle present tense Conversing together; bestowing.
CONFESS
CONFESS', verb transitive [Latin, to own or acknowledge.]1. To own, acknowledge or avow, as a crime, a fault, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest, or r...
CONFESSANT
CONFESS'ANT, noun One who confesses to a priest.
CONFESSARY
CONFESS'ARY, noun One who makes a confession. [Not used.]
CONFESSED
CONFESS'ED, participle passive Owned; acknowledged; declared to be true; admitted in words; avowed; admitted to disclose to a priest.
CONFESSEDLY
CONFESS'EDLY, adverb1. By confession, or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably. Demosthenes was confessedly the greatest orator in Greece.2. With avowed purpose; as, his object w...
CONFESSING
CONFESS'ING, participle present tense Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent; receiving disclosure of sins, or the state of the conscienc...
CONFESSION
CONFES'SION, noun1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage; open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, etc.With the mouth confession ...
CONFESSIONAL
CONFES'SIONAL, noun The seat where a priest or confessor sits to hear confessions; a confession-chair.