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To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

deliberate. Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. Acts xxv. 12. You shall hear us confer of this. Shak.

To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven. Matt. x. 32. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. Acts xxiii. 8.…

One who makes a confession. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

e and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam.

That in which faith is put or reliance had. The Lord shall be thy confidence. Prov. iii. 26.

Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.

To strengthen in judgment or purpose. Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. Milton.

e taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.

learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. Abp. Bramhall.

agic arts; incantation; enchantment. Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event. Hallam.

away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. Wordsworth. The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. Froude.

To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.

To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

fe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Burke. Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equa…

nything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. Tatler.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

nion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More.