the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.

given formally or officially.

Same as Conferee.

One who confers; one who converses.

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

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

Belonging to the confervae.

Like, or related to, the confervae.

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.

To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

One who confesses to a priest.

One who makes a confession.

By confession; without denial.

One who makes a confession.

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

Pertaining to a confession of faith.

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

A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

One professing a certain faith.

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.

The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

See Cofessedly.

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.

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.

To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.

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.