CONFESSIONARY
CONFES'SIONARY, noun A confession-chair, as above.CONFES'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to auricular confession.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CONFESSIONIST
CONFES'SIONIST, noun One who makes a profession of faith.
CONFESSOR
CONFESS'OR, noun1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges his sins.2. One who makes a profession of his faith in the Christian religion. The word is appropriately used to denot...
CONFEST
CONFEST', participle passive [for confessed.] Owned; open; acknowledged; apparent; not disputed.
CONFESTLY
CONFEST'LY, adverb [for confessedly.] Avowedly; indisputably. [Little used.]
CONFIDANT
CON'FIDANT, noun [See Confident.]
CONFIDE
CONFI'DE, verb transitive [Latin, to trust. See Faith.] To trust; to rely on, with a persuasion of faithfulness or veracity in the person trusted or of the reality of a fact; to...
CONFIDED
CONFI'DED, participle passive Entrusted; committed to the care of, for preservation, or for performance or exercise.
CONFIDENCE
CON'FIDENCE, noun [Latin See Confide.]1. A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability or veracity of another, or in the truth and rea...
CONFIDENT
CON'FIDENT, adjective1. Having full belief; trusting; relying; fully assured.I am confident that much may be cone towards the improvement of philosophy.The troops rush on, confi...
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDEN'TIAL, adjective1. Enjoying the confidence of another; trusty; that may be safely trusted; as a confidential friend.2. That is to be treated or kept in confidence; priva...
CONFIDENTIALLY
CONFIDEN'TIALLY, adverb In confidence; in reliance or secrecy.
CONFIDENTLY
CON'FIDENTLY, adverb With firm trust; with strong assurance; without doubt or wavering of opinion; positively; as, to believe confidently; to assert confidently
CONFIDENTNESS
CON'FIDENTNESS, noun Confidence; the quality or state of having full reliance.
CONFIDER
CONFI'DER, noun one who confides; one who entrusts to another.
CONFIGURATE
CONFIG'URATE, verb intransitive [Latin See Configure.] To show like the aspects of the planets towards each other.
CONFIGURATION
CONFIGURA'TION, noun [Latin]1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body, and gives it its external appearance, constituting one of the principal differences ...
CONFIGURE
CONFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin, to form, figure.] To form; to dispose in a certain form, figure or shape.
CONFINABLE
CONFI'NABLE, adjective That may be confined or limited.
CONFINE
CON'FINE, noun [Latin, at the end or border, adjoining; a limit; end, border, limit. See Fine.] Border; edge; exterior part; the part of any territory which is at or near the en...
CONFINED
CONFI'NED, participle passive Restrained within limits; imprisoned; limited; secluded; close.
CONFINELESS
CON'FINELESS, adjective Boundless; unlimited; without end.
CONFINEMENT
CONFI'NEMENT, noun1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; as the confinement of a debtor or criminal to a pri...
CONFINER
CONFI'NER, noun He or that which limits or restrains.CONFINER, noun1. A borderer; one who lives on confines, or near the border of a country.2. He or that which is near the limi...
CONFINING
CONFINING, participle present tense Restraining; limiting; imprisoning.
CONFINITY
CONFINITY, noun [Latin] Contiguity; nearness; neighborhood.
CONFIRM
CONFIRM, verb transitive [Latin, to make firm. See Firm.]1. To make firm, or more firm; to add strength to; to strengthen; as, health is confirmed by exercise.2. To fix more fir...