Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 104
Confeder (v. i.) To confederate. [Obs.] -- Sir T. North.
Confederacy (n.) (Amer. Hist.) With the, the Confederate States of America.
Confederacies (n. 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.
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. -- Addison.
He hath heard of our confederacy. -- Shak.
Virginia promoted a confederacy. -- Bancroft.
Confederacy (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. -- Harris.
Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. -- Dryden.
Confederacy (n.) (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation.
Confederacy (n.) The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland].
Confederacy (n.) A union of political organizations [syn: confederation, confederacy, federation].
Confederacy (n.) A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose [syn: conspiracy, confederacy].
Confederacy (n.) A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act [syn: conspiracy, confederacy].
Confederacy, () equity pleading. The fourth part of a bill in chancery usually charges a confederacy; this is either general or special.
Confederacy, () The first is by alleging a general charge of confederacy between the defendants and other persons to injure or defraud the plaintiff. The common form of the charge is, that the defendants, combining and confederating together, to and with divers other persons as yet to the plaintiff unknown, but whose names, when discovered, he prays may be inserted in the bill, and they be made parties thereto, with proper and apt words to charge them with the premises, in order to injure and oppress the plaintiff in ti e premises, do absolutely refuse, &c. Mitf. Eq. Pl. by Jeremy, 40; Coop. Eq. Pl. 9 Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 29; 1 Mont. Eq. Pl. 77; Barton, Suit in Eq. 33; Van Heyth. Eq. Drafts, 4.
Confederacy, () When it is intended to rely on a confederacy or combination as a ground of equitable jurisdiction, the confederacy must be specially charged to justify an assumption of jurisdiction. Mitf. Eq. Pl. by Jeremy, 41; Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 30.
Confederacy, () A general allegation of confederacy is now considered as mere form.
Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 29; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4169.
Confederacy, () intern. law. An agreement between two or more states or nations, by which they unite for their mutual protection and good. This term is applied to such agreement between two independent nations, but it is used to signify the union of different states of the same nation, as the confederacy of the states.
Confederacy, () The original thirteen states, in 1781, adopted for their federal government the "Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the States," which continued in force until the present constitution of the United States went into full operation, on the 30th day of April, 1789, when president Washington was sworn into office. Vide 1 Story on the Const. B. 2, c. 3 and 4.
Confederacy, () crim. law. An agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or an act, which though not unlawful in itself, becomes so by the confederacy. The technical term usually employed to signify this offence, is conspiracy. (q.v.)
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.
With these the Piercies them confederate. -- Daniel.
Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
By words men . . . covenant and confederate. -- South.
Confederate (a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace. -- Shak.
Confederate (a.) (Amer. Hist.) 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.
He found some of his confederates in gaol. -- Macaulay.
Confederate (n.) (Amer. Hist.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
Confederate (a.) Of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War; "Confederate soldiers".
Confederate (a.) United in a confederacy or league [syn: allied, confederate, confederative].
Confederate (n.) A supporter of the Confederate States of America
Confederate (n.) Someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime].
Confederate (n.) A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice, confederate].
Confederate (v.) Form a group or unite; "The groups banded together" [syn: band together, confederate].
Confederate (v.) Form a confederation with; of nations.
Confederater (n.) A confederate.
Confederation (n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. -- Bacon.
This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. -- Palfrey.
Confederation (n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Articles of confederation. See under Article.
Confederation (n.) The state of being allied or confederated [syn: alliance, confederation].
Confederation (n.) A union of political organizations [syn: confederation, confederacy, federation].
Confederation (n.) The act of forming an alliance or confederation [syn: confederation, alliance].
Confederation, () government. The name given to that form of government which the American colonies, on shaking off the British yoke, devised for their mutual safety and government.
Confederation, () The articles of confederation, (q.v.) were finally adopted on the 15th of November, 1777, and with the exception of Maryland, which, however, afterwards also agreed to them, were speedily adopted by the United States, and by which they were formed into a federal @bod y, and went into force on the first day of March, 1781; 1 Story Const. Sec. 225; and so remained until the adoption of the present constitution, which acquired the force of the supreme law of the land on the first Wednesday of March, 1789. 5 Wheat. R. 420. Vide Articles of Confederation.
Confederative (a.) Of or pertaining to a confederation.
Confederative (a.) United in a confederacy or league [syn: allied, confederate, confederative].
Confederator (n.) A confederate. -- Grafton.
Confer (v. i.) 商談，協商 [（+with/ on）] To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. -- Acts xxv. 12.
You shall hear us confer of this. -- Shak.
Syn: To counsel; advise; discourse; converse.
Conferred (imp. & p. p.) of Confer.
Conferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confer.
Confer (v. t.) 授予（學位等）[（+on/ upon）]；給予，賦予 To bring together for comparison; to compare. [Obs.]
If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. -- Boyle.
Confer (v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me. -- Milton.
Confer (v. t.) To contribute; to conduce. [Obs.]
The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. -- Glanvill.
Confer (v.) Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action" [syn: {confer}, {confabulate}, {confab}, {consult}].
Confer (v.) Present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone" [syn: {confer}, {bestow}].
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.
Conferee (n.) A person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were...".
Conferee (n.) A member of a conference.
Conference (n.) （正式）會議；討論會，協商會 [C] [（+on）]；討論，會談 [U] [S1] [（+with）] The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. -- Hocker.
Conference (n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
Nor with such free and friendly conference As he hath used of old. -- Shak.
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.) (Methodist Church) 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.
{Conference meeting}, A meeting for conference. Specifically, a meeting conducted (usually) by laymen, for conference and prayer. [U. S.]
{Conference room}, A room for conference and prayer, and for the pastor's less formal addresses. [U. S.]
Conference (n.) A prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda).
Conference (n.) An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members [syn: {league}, {conference}].
Conference (n.) A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic [syn: {conference}, {group discussion}].
Conference (n.), Practice, legislation. In practice, it is the meeting of the parties or their attorneys in a cause, for the purpose of endeavoring to settle the same.
Conference (n.) In legislation, when the senate and house of representatives cannot agree on a bill or resolution which it is desirable should be passed, committees are appointed by the two bodies respectively, who are called committees of conference, and whose duty it is, if possible, to -reconcile the differences between them.
Conference (n.) In the French law, this term is used to signify the similarity and comparison between two laws, or two systems of law; as the Roman and the common law. Encyclopedie, h.t.
Conference (n.) In diplomacy, conferences are verbal explanations between ministers of two nations at least, for the purpose of accelerating various difficulties and delays, necessarily attending written communications.
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 (n. 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.) 坦白，承認，供認；聽取...懺悔；向...懺悔；表明信仰...；供認，承認，交代；懺悔 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.) 懺悔者，供認者 One who confesses to a priest.
Confessary (n.) One who makes a confession.
Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.
Confesser (n.) (= Confessor) 懺悔者 One who makes a confession.
Confession (n.) 自認，自白，招供 Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. -- Shak.
Confession (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. -- Rom. x. 10.
Confession (n.) (Eccl.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. -- Hallam.
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.) (Law) 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. -- Wharton.
Confession and avoidance (Law), A mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. -- Mozley & W.
Confession of faith, A formulary containing the articles of faith; a creed.
General confession, The confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer.
Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.
Confession (n.) An admission of misdeeds or faults.
Confession (n.) A written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party.
Confession (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) The act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution.
Confession (n.) A public declaration of your faith.
Confession (n.) The document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century).
Confession, () An open profession of faith (Luke 12:8). (2.) An acknowledment of sins to God (Lev. 16:21; Ezra 9:5-15; Dan. 9:3-12), and to a neighbour whom we have wronged (James 5:16; Matt. 18:15).
Confession, () crim. law, evidence. The voluntary declaration made by a person who has committed a crime or misdemeanor, to another, of the agency or participation which he had in the same.
Confession, () When made without bias or improper influence, confessions are admissible in evidence, as the highest and most satisfactory proof: because it is fairly presumed that no man would make such a confession against himself, if the facts confessed were not true but they are excluded, if liable to the of having been unfairly obtained.
Confession, () Confessions should be received with great caution, as they are liable to many objections. There is danger of error from the misapprehension of witnesses, the misuse of words, the failure of a party to express his own meaning, the prisoner being oppressed by his unfortunate situation, and influenced by hope, fear, and sometimes a worse motive, to male an untrue confession. See the case of the two Boorns in Greenl. Ev. Sec. 214, note 1; North American Review, vol. 10, p. 418; 6 Carr. & P. 451; Joy on Confess. s. 14, p. 100; and see 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 85.
Confession, () A confession must be made voluntarily, by the party himself, to another person. 1. It must be voluntary. A confession, forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as evidence of guilt, that Lo credit ought to be given to it. 1 Leach, 263. This is the principle, but what amounts to a promise or a threat, is not so easily defined. Vide 2 East, P. C. 659; 2 Russ. on Cr. 644 4 Carr. & Payne, 387; S. C. 19 Eng. Com. L. Rep. 434; 1 Southard, R. 231 1 Wend. R. 625; 6 Wend. R. 268 5 Halst. R. 163 Mina's Trial, 10; 5 Rogers' Rec. 177 2 Overton, R. 86 1 Hayw. (N. C.) R, 482; 1 Carr. & Marsh. 584. But it must be observed that a confession will be considered as voluntarily made, although it was made after a promise of favor or threat of punishment, by a person not in authority, over the prisoner. If, however, a person having such authority over him be present at the time, and he express no dissent, evidence of such confession cannot be given. 8 Car. & Payne, 733.
Confession, () The confession must be made by the party to be affected by it. It is evidence only against him. In case of a conspiracy, the acts of one conspirator are the acts of all, while active in the progress of the conspiracy, but after it is over, the confession of one as to the part he and others took in the crime, is not evidence against any but himself. Phil. Ev. 76, 77; 2 Russ. on Cr. 653.
Confession, () The confession must be to another person. It may be made to a private individual, or under examination before a magistrate. The whole of the confession must be taken, together with whatever conversation took place at the time of the confession. Roscoe's Ev. N. P. 36; 1 Dall. R. 240 Id. 392; 3 Halst. 27 5 2 Penna. R. 27; 1 Rogers' Rec. 66; 3 Wheeler's C. C. 533; 2 Bailey's R. 569; 5 Rand. R. 701.
Confession, () Confession, in another sense, is where a prisoner being arraigned for an offence, confesses or admits the crime with which he is charged, whereupon the plea of guilty is entered. Com Dig. Indictment, K; Id. Justices, W 3; Arch. Cr. Pl. 1 2 1; Harr. Dig. b. t.; 20 Am. Jur. 68; Joy on Confession.
Confession, () Confessions are classed into judicial and extra judicial. Judicial confessions are those made before a magistrate, or in court, in the due course of legal proceedings; when made freely by the party, and with a full and perfect knowledge of their nature and consequences, they are sufficient to found a conviction. These confessions are such as are authorized by a statute, as to take a preliminary examination in writing; or they are by putting in the plea of guilty to an indictment. Extra judicial confessions are those which are made by the part elsewhere than before a magistrate or in open court. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 216. See, generally, 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3081-2.
Confessional (n.) 懺悔室，告解聆聽席，告解場 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.) 自白的，懺悔的 Pertaining to a confession of faith.
Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.
Confessional (n.) A booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
Confessionalism (n.) (Eccl.) 教派主義：以自己教派的傳統，信仰，思想為中心，產生與其他教會隔離的態度 An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. -- Shaff.
Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. [R.] -- Boucher
Confessionalist (n.) A person who confesses in or as if in a confessional.
Confessionary (n.) A confessional. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Confessionary (a.) Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.
Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith. -- Bp. Montagu.
Confessor (n.) [C] 自白者；懺悔者； 告解的神父；不畏受難的基督徒 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.
He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. -- Latham.
Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. -- Bacon.
Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
Confessor (n.) A priest who hears confession and gives absolution.
Confessor (n.) Someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves).
Confessor () evid. A priest of some Christian sect, who receives an account of the sins of his people, and undertakes to give them absolution of their sins.
Confessor () The general rule on the subject of giving evidence of confidential communications is, that the privilege is confined to counsel, solicitors, and attorneys, and the interpreter between the counsel and the client. Vide Confidential Communications. Contrary to this general rule, it has been decided in New York, that a priest of the Roman Catholic denomination could not be compelled to divulge secrets which he had received in auricular confession. 2 City Hall Rec. 80, n.; Joy on Conf. Sec. 4, p. 49. See Bouv. Inst. n. 3174 and note.
Confessorship (n.) The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.
Confessorship (n.) The condition of a person who continues to confess their faith when suffering persecution.
Confestly (adv.) See Cofessedly.
Confestly (adv.) Obsolete form of confessedly.
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.
Confidant (n.) [ C ] (Female also Confidante) 知心朋友，知己，密友 A person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with.
// A close confidant.
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.
By thy command I rise or fall, In thy protection I confide. -- Byron.
Judge before friendships, then confide till death. -- Young.
Confide (v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.
Congress may . . . confide to the Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States. -- Story.
Confide (v.) Reveal in private; tell confidentially.
Confide (v.) Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit].
Confidence (n.) 自信，信心，把握 [U] [（+in）] [+to-v] [+that]；信賴，信任 [U] [（+in）]；（向知心人吐露的）祕密，私房話 [C]；大膽；過於自信；狂妄 [U] The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. -- South.
A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. -- Macaulay.
Confidence (n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.
The Lord shall be thy confidence. -- Prov. iii. 26.
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.
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence; Do not go forth to-day. -- Shak.
But confidence then bore thee on secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial. -- Milton.
Confidence (n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
Sir, I desire some confidence with you. -- Shak.
Confidence game, Any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler; several swindlers often work together to create the illusion of truth; -- also called con game.
Confidence man, A swindler.
To take into one's confidence, To admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.
Syn: Trust; assurance; expectation; hope.
I am confident that very much be done. -- Boyle.
Confidence (n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are but thyself. -- Shak.
Confidence (n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. -- Shak.
Confidence (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
The fool rageth and is confident. -- Prov. xiv. 16.
Confidence (n.) Giving occasion for confidence. [R.]
The cause was more confident than the event was prosperous. -- Jer. Taylor.
Confidence (n.) Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness].
Confidence (n.) A feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned" [ant: diffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt].
Confidence (n.) A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; "public confidence in the economy".
Confidence (n.) A trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust" [syn: confidence, trust].
Confidence (n.) A secret that is confided or entrusted to another; "everyone trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not reveal her confidences".
Confident (n.) See Confidant. -- South. -- Dryden.
Confident (a.) 確信的；有信心的，自信的 [（+of）] [+（that）]；過於自信的，自負的；大膽的 Having or marked by confidence or assurance; "a confident speaker"; "a confident reply"; "his manner is more confident these days"; "confident of fulfillment" [ant: diffident, shy, timid, unsure].
Confident (a.) Persuaded of; very sure; "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join"; "I am positive he is lying"; "was confident he would win" [syn: convinced(p), positive(p), confident(p)].
Confident (a.) Not liable to error in judgment or action; "most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression"- Walter Lippman; "demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent"- Michiko Kakutani [syn: confident, surefooted, sure-footed].
Confident (a.) (B1) 自信的；有信心的；確信的；有把握的；信任的 Having confidence.
// Be a bit more confident in yourself!
// They don't sound confident about the future of the industry.
// I'm confident of his skills as a manager.
// [ + that ] Are you confident that enough people will attend the event?
// It was a confident performance.
Confidential (a.) 祕密的；機密的；表示信任的；獲信任的；參與機密的 Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
Confidential (a.) Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." -- Burke.
{Confidential communication} (Law) See {Privileged communication}, Under {Privileged}.
{Confidential creditors}, Those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors.
{Confidential debts}, Debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts. -- McElrath.
Compare: Classified
Classified (a.) Arranged into classes or categories; as, {unclassified}.
Syn: categorized.
Classified (a.) Assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of {unclassified}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {eyes-only}; {confidential}; {restricted}; {secret}; {sensitive}; {top-secret}].
Confidential (a.) Entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary".
Confidential (a.) (Of information) Given in confidence or in secret; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications" [syn: {confidential}, {secret}].
Confidential (a.) Denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice".
Confidential (a.) The level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified.
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. -- Con*fid"ing*ly, adv. -- Con*fid"ing*ness, n.
Confiding (a.) Willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was suspicious, then she became confiding".
Configurate (v. i.) To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
Known by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. -- Jordan.
Configuration (n.) 結構；配置； 【心】形態；【天】行星的方位；（地球表面的）外貌 Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. -- Harris.
Configuration (n.) (Astrol.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. -- Whewell.
Configuration (n.) An arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time" [syn: configuration, constellation].
Configuration (n.) Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" [syn: shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation].
Configured (imp. & p. p.) of Configure.