Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 104

Confeder (v. i.) To confederate.

Confederacies (pl. ) of Confederacy

Confederacy (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

Confederacy (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.

Confederacy (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.

Confederate (a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

Confederate (a.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.

Confederate (n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.

Confederate (n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

Confederated (imp. & p. p.) of Confederate

Confederating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confederate

Confederate (v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.

Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

Confederater (n.) A confederate.

Confederation (n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.

Confederation (n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.

Confederative (a.) Of or pertaining to a confederation.

Confederator (n.) A confederate.

Conferred (imp. & p. p.) of Confer

Conferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confer

Confer (v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.

Confer (v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.

Confer (v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.

Confer (v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.

Conferee (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

Conferee (n.) One upon whom something is conferred.

Conference (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

Conference (n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.

Conference (n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.

Conference (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

Conference (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.

Conference (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

Conferential (a.) Relating to conference.

Conferrable (a.) Capable of being conferred.

Conferree (n.) Same as Conferee.

Conferrer (n.) One who confers; one who converses.

Conferrer (n.) One who bestows; a giver.

Conferruminate (a.) Alt. of Conferruminated

Conferruminated (a.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

Confervae (pl. ) of Conferva

Conferva (n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Confervaceous (a.) Belonging to the confervae.

Confervoid (a.) Like, or related to, the confervae.

Confervous (a.) Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.

Confessed (imp. & p. p.) of Confess

Confessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confess

Confess (v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.

Confess (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

Confess (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.

Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

Confess (v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

Confess (v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.

Confessary (n.) One who makes a confession.

Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.

Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.

Confession (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.

Confession (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.

Confession (n.) A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

Confession (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.

Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.

Confessional (a.) Pertaining to a confession of faith.

Confessionalism (n.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Confessionary (a.) Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith.

Confessor (n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.

Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

Confessorship (n.) The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

Confestly (adv.) See Cofessedly.

Confidant (n. fem.) Alt. of Confidante

Confidante (n. fem.) One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

Confided (imp. & p. p.) of Confide

Confiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confide

Confide (v. i.) To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

Confide (v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.

Confidence (n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.

Confidence (n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.

Confidence (n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.

Confidence (n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.

Confidence (n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.

Confidence (n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.

Confidence (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.

Confidence (n.) Giving occasion for confidence.

Confident (n.) See Confidant.

Confidential (a.) Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

Confidential (a.) Communicated in confidence; secret.

Confidentially (adv.) In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

Confidently (adv.) With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

Confidentness (n.) The quality of being confident.

Confider (n.) One who confides.

Confiding (a.) That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.

Configurate (v. i.) To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.

Configuration (n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.

Configuration (n.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

Configured (imp. & p. p.) of Configure

[previous page] [Index] [next page]