Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections.

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

To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.

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

See Confidant.

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

the state or attribute of being secret; privacy; as, you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications.

In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

The quality of being confident.

One who confides.

That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.

To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure.

an approach to psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties.

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.

Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.

Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.

Without limitation or end; boundless.

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

Community of limits; contiguity.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

That may be confirmed.

Confirmation.

The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.

Tending to confirm or establish.

One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.

Serving to confirm; corroborative.

With confirmation.

A fixed state.

One to whom anything is confirmed.

One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates.

In a confirming manner.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

taken without permission or consent, especially by or as if by a public authority; as, the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain; teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits.

The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.

One who confiscates.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.

Same as Comfit.

One who confesses his sins and faults.

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.

To fix; to fasten.

Act of fastening.

Burning together in a common flame.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.

Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing; marked by discord.

Tending to conflict; conflicting.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

A small steam which flows into a large one.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents.

The tendency of fluids to run together.

Inclined to flow or run together.

Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

The state of being conformable.

Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.

The quality of being conformable; conformability.

With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Conformity.

Having the same form.

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

adhering to established customs or doctrines, especially in religion, as e.g. Orthodox Judaism.

orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; as, underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist. Opposite of nonconformist.

One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

The act of strengthening.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered.

Extremely; odiously; detestably.

The state of being confounded.

One who confounds.

a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.

Broken in pieces; severed.

Broken; uneven.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

A rubbing together; friction.

A confr/re.

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

Act of confronting.

Same as Affront/.

One who confronts.

The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.

Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher, or to Confucianism; as, Confucian ethics. A Confucianist.

The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.

A follower of Confucius; a Confucian.

a Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC), the founder of Confucianism.

Confused, disturbed.

Capability of being confused.

Capable of being confused.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

In a confused manner.

A state of confusion.

Confusedly; obscurely.

causing mental confusion and perplexity.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

Confusing; having a tendency to confusion.

That may be confuted.

One who undertakes to confute.

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

Adapted or designed to confute.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Confutation.

One who confutes or disproves.

the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.

An abbreviation of Congius.

music composed for dancing the conga.

a line of persons dancing the conga{2}.

To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow ceremoniously, or courtesy.

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.