Definition of fesse

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Fesse (n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries..

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Admittedly :: Admittedly (adv.) Confessedly.
Dervis :: Dervis (n.) A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life..
Mystic :: Mystic (n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism..
Professed :: Professed (imp. & p. p.) of Profes.
Druid :: Druid (n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries..
Fesse :: Fesse (n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries..
Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Provessel :: Provessel (a.) Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian..
Confesser :: Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.
Confessedly :: Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.
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..
Acknowledgedly :: Acknowledgedly (adv.) Confessedly.
Appellor :: Appellor (n.) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.
Confessor :: 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..
Apostasy :: Apostasy (n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity..
Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
Cabalism :: Cabalism (n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
Orangeman :: Orangeman (n.) One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England..
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