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Confessional :: 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..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Confession :: 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..

Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..

Ghostly :: Ghostly (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor..

Acknow :: Acknow (v. t.) To acknowledge; to confess.

Appellor :: Appellor (n.) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.

Confess :: 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..

Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..

Admission :: Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry..

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

Shrift :: Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it..

Confessing :: Confessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confes.

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

Blushingly :: Blushingly (adv.) In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly..

Confitent :: Confitent (n.) One who confesses his sins and faults.

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

Beknow :: Beknow (v. t.) To confess; to acknowledge.

Shrive :: Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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