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The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.

Congress may . . . confide to the Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States. Story.

The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstamces; 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 Ei…

That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak.

A fixed state.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

The state of being conformable.

The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.

The state of being confounded.

The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.

A state of confusion. Norris.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.

The state of being congealed. Dr. H.More.

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds.

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.

the Revolution. -- The Federal Congress, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. -- Congress boot or gaiter, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic materi…